 Virtue is the foundation of honour and esteem, 'add the source of all beauty, order and happiness in nature. It is what confers value on all the other endowments and qualities of a reasonable being., to which they ought to be absolutely subservient ;...  Locomotive Engineers Journal - Page 2111877Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1758
...endowments and qualities of a reafonable being, to which * they ought to be abfolutely fubfervient, and without which the « more eminent they are, the more hideous deformities and thé * greater curfes they become. The ufe and influence of it are not * confined to any one part or... | |
 | Richard Price - Christian ethics - 1769 - 462 pages
...other endowments and qualities of a reafonable being, to which they ought to be abfolutely fubfervient, and without which the more eminent they are, the more hideous deformities and the greater curfes they become. The ufe of it is not confined to any one ftage of our exiftence, or to any particular... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 405 pages
...other endowments and qualities of a reafonable being, to which they ought to be abfolutely fubfervient, and without which the more eminent they are, the more hideous deformities and the greater curfes they become. The ufe of it is not confined to any one ftage of our exiftence, or to any particular... | |
 | Richard Price - Christian ethics - 1787 - 512 pages
...other endowments and qualities of a reafonable being, to which they ought to be abfolutely fubfervient, and without which the more eminent they are, the more hideous deformities and the greater curfes they become. The ufe of it is not confined to any one ftage of our exiftence, pr to any particular... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 398 pages
...endowments and qualities of a reafonable being, to which they ought to be ab(olutely Tubfervient ; and without which, the more eminent they are, the more hideous deformities and the greater curfes they become. I The life of it is not confined to any one ftage of our exiftence, or to any particular... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1792 - 456 pages
...qualities of я reafonyble being, to which tKty oi¡^ht tobe abfolutely fublcrvicnt, and without » hich the more eminent they are the more hideous deformities and the greater curfcs they become. The ufe «if it of our exiftcnce, or to any particular firuation ; we cm be in,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 1120 pages
...endowments and qualities of a reafonable being, to which they ought to be abfolutely fubfer vient, and without which the more eminent they are, the more hideous deformities and the greater curfes they become. The ufe of it is not confined to any one flage of our exiflcnce, or to any particular... | |
 | 1797 - 1120 pages
...beine, to winch they ought £nd varlctyV the latter his inferiors are to be abfolutely fubfervient, and without which the more eminent they are, the more hideous deformities and the greater curfcs gr they become. The ufe of it is not conalmoft infinite, fo probably are thofe of the foimer... | |
 | Pierre Franc M'Callum - Haiti - 1805 - 354 pages
...the source of all beauty, order, and hap*' piness in nature. It is what confers value on nil the " other endowments and qualities of a reasonable being,...absolutely subservient, and " without which the more hideous deformities and " curses they become." " Beauty and wit will die — • *' learning will vanish... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1805 - 394 pages
...other endowments and qualities of a reafonable being, to which they ought to be abfolutely fubfervient, and without which the more eminent they are, the more hideous deformities and the greater curfes they become. The nfe of it is not confined to anyone ftaga of our exiftence, or to a^ particular... | |
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