The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... virtue , wisdom , valour , wit , Strength , comeliness of shape , or amplest merit , That woman's love can win , or long inherit ; But what it is , hard is to say , Harder to hit . " Samp . Ago . Multiplied emphasis and emotion , are ...
... virtue , wisdom , valour , wit , Strength , comeliness of shape , or amplest merit , That woman's love can win , or long inherit ; But what it is , hard is to say , Harder to hit . " Samp . Ago . Multiplied emphasis and emotion , are ...
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... virtues ; for even virtue needs protectors ! Yet I am doubtful whether he has not exposed public tranquillity more than even the inventor of gunpowder . Such is his impatience with corruption and vice , and so irresistible are the doc ...
... virtues ; for even virtue needs protectors ! Yet I am doubtful whether he has not exposed public tranquillity more than even the inventor of gunpowder . Such is his impatience with corruption and vice , and so irresistible are the doc ...
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... life , the prize of virtue , and tranquillity of the soul , while they are themselves the most rebellicus , the most prone to anger , blindly devoted to love , to en- 1 vy , to avarice , to ambition , most THE LITERARY REPUBLIC . 13.
... life , the prize of virtue , and tranquillity of the soul , while they are themselves the most rebellicus , the most prone to anger , blindly devoted to love , to en- 1 vy , to avarice , to ambition , most THE LITERARY REPUBLIC . 13.
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... virtue , there are so many who like Erostratus undertake some signal evil , to be remembered by historians ; and as in their an- nals are recorded the virtues and vices of great kings and princes , we are more apt to excuse our own ...
... virtue , there are so many who like Erostratus undertake some signal evil , to be remembered by historians ; and as in their an- nals are recorded the virtues and vices of great kings and princes , we are more apt to excuse our own ...
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... virtue and delight . Can there be more ingenious folly ? Why did not some of the philosophers place the happiness of man in not writing , since authors are one of their principal curses . Plato alone , more enlightened than the rest ...
... virtue and delight . Can there be more ingenious folly ? Why did not some of the philosophers place the happiness of man in not writing , since authors are one of their principal curses . Plato alone , more enlightened than the rest ...
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