Letters, Sentences and MaximsChesterfield Society, 1991 - 348 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 127
... give you a critical essay upon the use and abuse of time ; I will only give you some hints , with regards to the use of one particular period of that long time which , I hope , you have before you ; I mean , the next two years ...
... give you a critical essay upon the use and abuse of time ; I will only give you some hints , with regards to the use of one particular period of that long time which , I hope , you have before you ; I mean , the next two years ...
Σελίδα 162
... Give me but virtuous actions , and I will not quibble and chicane about the motives . And I will give anybody their choice of these two truths , which amount to the same thing : He who loves himself best is the honestest man ; or , The ...
... Give me but virtuous actions , and I will not quibble and chicane about the motives . And I will give anybody their choice of these two truths , which amount to the same thing : He who loves himself best is the honestest man ; or , The ...
Σελίδα 285
... give one farthing for virtue , he would give ten thousand pounds for * A notorious , wretched debauchee , who has been pilloried into a miserable and degraded immortality by Arbuthnot , Pope and Hogarth ; the painter has given us his ...
... give one farthing for virtue , he would give ten thousand pounds for * A notorious , wretched debauchee , who has been pilloried into a miserable and degraded immortality by Arbuthnot , Pope and Hogarth ; the painter has given us his ...
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