Letters, Sentences and MaximsChesterfield Society, 1991 - 348 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 55
... nature had primarily neglected to place in the honest but thoroughly mediocre soul of the younger Stanhope : " You appear to want , " said his father , " that vivida vis animi which excites the majority of young men to please , to ...
... nature had primarily neglected to place in the honest but thoroughly mediocre soul of the younger Stanhope : " You appear to want , " said his father , " that vivida vis animi which excites the majority of young men to please , to ...
Σελίδα 154
... nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves , than to mortify and depress them , and , in truth , our own private interest concurs in it , as it is making ourselves so many friends , instead of so many ene- mies ...
... nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves , than to mortify and depress them , and , in truth , our own private interest concurs in it , as it is making ourselves so many friends , instead of so many ene- mies ...
Σελίδα 201
... nature was the same three thousand years ago as it is at present ; that men were but men then as well as now ; that modes and customs vary often , but that human nature is always the same . And I can no more suppose , that men were ...
... nature was the same three thousand years ago as it is at present ; that men were but men then as well as now ; that modes and customs vary often , but that human nature is always the same . And I can no more suppose , that men were ...
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