The Works of Hannah More, Volume 5Harper & Brothers, 1836 |
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Page 10
... hand , the leaven of the predominating evil secretly works and insinuates itself , till the whole mass becomes impregnated by the pervading principle . Now , if the directing principle be unsound , the virtues growing out of it will be ...
... hand , the leaven of the predominating evil secretly works and insinuates itself , till the whole mass becomes impregnated by the pervading principle . Now , if the directing principle be unsound , the virtues growing out of it will be ...
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... hand , What Cato did , and Addison approved , Must sure be right : - if , I say , under all the extenuating circumstances here detailed , such a dreadful effect could be produced from a cause so little ex- pected or intended by its ...
... hand , What Cato did , and Addison approved , Must sure be right : - if , I say , under all the extenuating circumstances here detailed , such a dreadful effect could be produced from a cause so little ex- pected or intended by its ...
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... hand of a true poet ; who snatches him with uncontrolled dominion To Thebes and Athens when he will , and where . Now , to counteract the bias given by the passions , all the flowers of rhetoric , all the flights of mere poetry , and ...
... hand of a true poet ; who snatches him with uncontrolled dominion To Thebes and Athens when he will , and where . Now , to counteract the bias given by the passions , all the flowers of rhetoric , all the flights of mere poetry , and ...
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... hand , nor the captious caviller on the other , object to this distinction ; I mean between reading a dramatic composition , and seeing a theat- rical exhibition , as if it were fanciful or arbitrary . In the latter , is it the mere ...
... hand , nor the captious caviller on the other , object to this distinction ; I mean between reading a dramatic composition , and seeing a theat- rical exhibition , as if it were fanciful or arbitrary . In the latter , is it the mere ...
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... hand but his They owe their trophies , and their ornaments , Their foreign banners , and their boasted ensigns , Tarentine , Punic , and Sicilian spoils ? Nay , e'en those lictors who precede thy steps , This consul's purple which ...
... hand but his They owe their trophies , and their ornaments , Their foreign banners , and their boasted ensigns , Tarentine , Punic , and Sicilian spoils ? Nay , e'en those lictors who precede thy steps , This consul's purple which ...
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