In a word, generosity sanctifies every passion, and adds grace to every acquisition of the soul ; and if it does not necessarily include, at least it reflects a lustre upon the whole circle of moral and intellectual qualities. Herbert Lacy - Page 113by Thomas Henry Lister - 1828 - 285 pagesFull view - About this book
| Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...learning is but the avarice of the mind, and wit its more pleasing kind of madness. In a word, generosity sanctifies every passion, and adds grace to every...include, at least it reflects a lustre upon the whole circle of moral and intellectual qualities. ESSAY 46. ON THE LOVE OF LIFE INCREASING WITH AGI. (Goldsmith.)... | |
| William Melmoth - 1815 - 314 pages
...learning is but the avarice of the mind, and wit its more pleasing kind of madness. In a word, generosity sanctifies every passion, and adds grace to every...include, at least it reflects a lustre upon the whole circle of moral and intellectual qualities. But I am running into a general panegyrick upon generosity,... | |
| 1821 - 336 pages
...learning is but the avarice of the mind, and wit its more pleasing kind of madness. In a word, generosity sanctifies every passion, and adds grace to every...include, at least it reflects a lustre upon the whole circle of moral and intellectual qualities. But 1 am running into a general panegyric upon generosity,... | |
| David Irving - 1821 - 336 pages
...learning is but the avarice of the mind, and wit its more pleasing kind of madness. In a wordi generosity sanctifies every passion, and adds grace to every acquisition of the soul , and if it docs not necessarily include, at least it reflects a lustre upon the whole circle of moral and intellectual... | |
| 1834 - 506 pages
...generosity rises above the ordinary rules of social conduct, and flows with much too full a stream, to be comprehended within the precise marks of formal precepts....every passion, and adds grace to every acquisition ot the soul; and if it does not necessarily include, at least it reflects, a lustre upon the whole... | |
| David Irving - 1836 - 432 pages
...learning is but the avarice of the mind, and wit its more pleasing kind of madness. In a word, generosity sanctifies every passion, and adds grace to every...include, at least it reflects a lustre upon the whole circle of moral and intellectual qualities—Melmoth's Letters of Filzosborne. CHAP. XXIV. OF THE FLORID... | |
| 1872 - 588 pages
...the ordinary rules of social conduct, and flows with much too full a stream to be comprehended witin the precise marks of formal precepts. It sanctifies...include, at least it reflects, a lustre upon the whole circle of moral and intellectual qualities. FOUL HEARTS alone abhor foul suspicions, and fancy others... | |
| 1881 - 552 pages
...its inure pleasing kind of madness. In a word, VTL-nerosity sanctifies every passion, and adds Srace to every acquisition of the soul ; and if it does...include at least it reflects a lustre upon the whole circle of moral and intellectual qualities. Fitzonbarne't Letteri. A man cannot be generous if he be... | |
| James Chapman - 378 pages
...is but the avarice of i lie mind, and wit its more pleasing kind of madness. In a word, generosity sanctifies every passion, and adds grace to every...include, at least it reflects a lustre upon the whole circle of moral and intellectual qualities. MelmotK1s Letters of Fitzosborne, The Bounty of Nature.... | |
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