 | Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - Conduct of life - 1778 - 236 pages
...and cultivating every good inclination, and in checking and fubduing every propenfity to evil. If you had been born with a bad temper, it might have been...by education, reafon,- and principle : and, though you are fo happy as to have a good one while young, do not fuppofe it will always continue fo, if you... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Anecdotes - 1794 - 568 pages
...virtue confifts in chei iltling and cultivating every good inclination, and in checking and lubduing every propenfity to evil. If a man had been born with...neglects to maintain a proper command over it. Power, ficknefs, diLppointments, or worldly cares may corrupt, or embitter the finefl difpofition, if they... | |
 | Mr. Addison - Anecdotes - 1794 - 326 pages
...virtue confilts in cherifhing and cultivating every good inclination, and in checking and iubduing every propenfity to evil. If a man had been born with...made a good one, at leaft with regard to its outward effefts, by education, reafon, and principle ; and though he is fo happy as to have a good one while... | |
 | Mr. Addison - Anecdotes - 1796 - 634 pages
...with a bad temper, it might have been made a good one, at leaft with regard to its outward effe8s, by education, reafon, and principle; and though he is fo happy as to have a good one *hile !young, he muft not fuppofe it will always continue fo, if he neglects to maintain a proper command... | |
 | Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - Conduct of life - 1807 - 252 pages
...and cultivating every good inclination, and in checking and subduing every propensity to evil. If you had been born with a bad temper it might have been made a good one, at least with regard to its outward effects, by education, reason, and principle : and, though you are... | |
 | Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - Conduct of life - 1809 - 350 pages
...and cultivating every good inclination, and in checking and subduing every propensity to evil. If you had been born with a bad temper it might have been made a good one, at least with regard to its outward effects, by education, reason, and principle : and, though you are... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1809 - 344 pages
...and cultivating every good inclination, and in checking and subduing every propensity to evil. If you had been born with a bad temper, it might have been made a good one, at least, with regard to its outward effects, by education, reason and principle; and, though ytu are... | |
 | Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - Conduct of life - 1810 - 202 pages
...good inclination, and in check ing and subduing every propensity to evil. If you had been born wilh a bad temper, it might have been made a good one, at least with regard to its outward effects, by education, reason, and principle: and, though you are... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 322 pages
...and cultivating every good inclination, and in checking and subduing every propensity to evil. If you had been born with a bad temper, it might have been made a good one, at least with regard to its outward effects, by education, reason, and principle : and, though you are... | |
 | Hester Chapone - 1821 - 358 pages
...and cultivating every good inclination, and in checking and subduing every propensity to evil. If you had been born with a bad temper, it might have been made a good one, at least with regard to its outward effects, by education, reason, and principle : and, though you are... | |
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who knoweth whereof we are made," and of what we are capable. It is true, we are not all equally happy in our dispositions; but human virtue consists in cherishing and cultivating every good inclination, and in checking and subduing every propensity to... 
