Flowers of Literature, for 1806: Or, Characteristic Sketches of Human Nature, and Modern Manners. To which are Added, a General View of Literature During that Period; Portraits and Biographical Notices of Eminent Literary, and Political Characters; with Notes, Historical, Critical, and ExplanatoryB. Crosby and Company, 1807 - 528 pages |
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... Virtue to Vice . Semple's Charles Ellis Anecdotes of Gibbon , the Historian . Lemaistre's Rough Sketch of Paris · 1 3 • 12 • Necessity the chief Incentive to Genius . Memoirs of Ri- chard Cumberland · Lines to the Memory of Mr. Pitt ...
... Virtue to Vice . Semple's Charles Ellis Anecdotes of Gibbon , the Historian . Lemaistre's Rough Sketch of Paris · 1 3 • 12 • Necessity the chief Incentive to Genius . Memoirs of Ri- chard Cumberland · Lines to the Memory of Mr. Pitt ...
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... virtues fair , Cherish'd in earliest youth , now paying back , With tenfold usury , the pious care ; And pouring o'er my wounds the heav'nly balm Of conscious innocence . But chiefly Thou , Whom soft - ey'd Pity once led down from heav ...
... virtues fair , Cherish'd in earliest youth , now paying back , With tenfold usury , the pious care ; And pouring o'er my wounds the heav'nly balm Of conscious innocence . But chiefly Thou , Whom soft - ey'd Pity once led down from heav ...
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... virtue , every dignity of man , de- nying him even a fault ; or if he had a fault , that it was the re- sult of virtue . We confess , that we could see nothing of this transcendent virtue or greatness of mind , nothing that raised 22.
... virtue , every dignity of man , de- nying him even a fault ; or if he had a fault , that it was the re- sult of virtue . We confess , that we could see nothing of this transcendent virtue or greatness of mind , nothing that raised 22.
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... virtue or greatness of mind , nothing that raised him above the common standard of his contemporaries , except his ... virtues . In those faults , there is no mixture of deceit , of hypo . crisy , of pride , of ferocity , of complexional ...
... virtue or greatness of mind , nothing that raised him above the common standard of his contemporaries , except his ... virtues . In those faults , there is no mixture of deceit , of hypo . crisy , of pride , of ferocity , of complexional ...
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... virtues of the lady ; and the intention of her family has already been announc- ed of publishing her Memoirs on a more enlarged plan , with a selection of her correspondence ; it would therefore be anticipat . ing the pleasure the ...
... virtues of the lady ; and the intention of her family has already been announc- ed of publishing her Memoirs on a more enlarged plan , with a selection of her correspondence ; it would therefore be anticipat . ing the pleasure the ...
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