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" The old man deifies prudence; the youth commits himself to magnanimity and chance. The young man, who intends no ill, believes that none is intended, and therefore acts with... "
An Introduction to the Most Useful European Languages ...: Select Passages ... - Page 214
by Giuseppe Baretti - 1772 - 469 pages
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Materials and Models for Greek Prose Composition

Greek language - 1878 - 312 pages
...to riches, and the youth reverences virtue. The old man deifies prudence : the youth commits himself to magnanimity and chance. The young man who intends...believes that none is intended, and therefore acts with openness and candour ; but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect,...
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Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...to riches, and the youth reverences virtue. The old man deifies prudence; the youth commits himself to magnanimity and chance. The young man, who intends...believes that none is intended, and therefore acts with openness and candour ; but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect,...
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London university matriculation papers in English for twelve years, worked ...

London univ, exam. papers, George Bede Cox - English language - 1882 - 268 pages
...and precipitance. The old man deifies prudence. The youth commits himself to magnanimity and chance. Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.'— JOHNSON. The old man trusts wholly to slow shift, and to moving forward step...
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The history of the caliph Vathek, by W. Beckford [tr. by S. Henley]. Also ...

William Beckford - 1883 - 454 pages
...to riches, and the youth reverences virtue. The old man deifies prudence ; the youth commits himself to magnanimity and chance. The young man, who intends...believes that none is intended, and therefore acts with openness and candour; but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect,...
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The History of the Caliph Vathek

William Beckford - Fiction - 1883 - 446 pages
...to riches, and the youth reverences virtue. The old man deifies prudence ; the youth commits himself to magnanimity and chance. The young man, who intends...believes that none is intended, and therefore acts with openness and candour; but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect,...
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The History of the Caliph Vathek

William Beckford - Ethiopia - 1883 - 452 pages
...father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect, and too often allured to practise it. Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. Thus parents and children, for the greatest part, live on to love less and less;...
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson - Fiction - 1887 - 216 pages
...reverences virtue. The old man deifies prudence ; the youth commits himself to magnanimity and chance. 30 The young man, who intends no ill, believes that none is intended, and therefore acts with openness and candour ; but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect,...
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Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pages
...to riches, and the youth reverences virtue. The old man deifies prudence : the youth commits himself to magnanimity and chance. The young man who intends...believes that none is intended, and therefore acts with openness and candour : but his father having suffered the injuries of fraud is impelled to suspect,...
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Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 356 pages
...father having suffered the injuries of fraud is impelled to suspect, and too often allured to practise it. Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. Thus parents and children for the greatest part live on to love less and less...
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Johnson's History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1891 - 286 pages
...10 riches, and the youth reverences virtue. The old man deifies prudence ; the youth commits himself to magnanimity and chance. The young man, who intends...believes that none is intended, and therefore acts with openness and candor ; but his father, having suffered 15 the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect,...
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