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Tryon Edwards. Table of Contents Preface. A. Abstinence Absurdities Abuse Accent Accident Accuracy Acquaintance Acquirement Action Actors Address Admiration Adversity Advice Affectation Affection Affliction Age Agitation Agnosticism ...
Tryon Edwards. Table of Contents Preface. A. Abstinence Absurdities Abuse Accent Accident Accuracy Acquaintance Acquirement Action Actors Address Admiration Adversity Advice Affectation Affection Affliction Age Agitation Agnosticism ...
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Tryon Edwards. D. Controversy Conversation Conversion Conviviality Coquette Corruption Counsel Countenance Country Courage Courtesy Courts and Courtiers Courtship Covetousness Cowardice Coxcomb Credit Creditor Credulity Creed Crime ...
Tryon Edwards. D. Controversy Conversation Conversion Conviviality Coquette Corruption Counsel Countenance Country Courage Courtesy Courts and Courtiers Courtship Covetousness Cowardice Coxcomb Credit Creditor Credulity Creed Crime ...
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Tryon Edwards. A. Ability. Ability is a poor man's wealth.—M. Wren. Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty.—A. Maclaren. What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and ...
Tryon Edwards. A. Ability. Ability is a poor man's wealth.—M. Wren. Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty.—A. Maclaren. What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and ...
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Tryon Edwards. I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.—Jane Porter ...
Tryon Edwards. I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.—Jane Porter ...
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Tryon Edwards. It is good for man to suffer the adversity of this earthly life: for it brings him back to the sacred retirement of the heart, where only he finds he is an exile from his native home, and ought not to place his trust in ...
Tryon Edwards. It is good for man to suffer the adversity of this earthly life: for it brings him back to the sacred retirement of the heart, where only he finds he is an exile from his native home, and ought not to place his trust in ...
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