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Sir Roger de Coverley and the Spectator's Club

Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1908 - 208 pages
...via pro mhiculo est. FUEL., Syr. Frag. An agreeable companion upon the road is as good as a coach. A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches...which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public. A man is more sure of his conduct when the verdict which he passes upon his own behaviour is...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 pages
...-We follow the world in approving others ; we go far before it in approving ourselves. — Colton. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches...censures of the world. If the last interferes with tue former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction...
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The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: From the Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1908 - 226 pages
...world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there 20 cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind...which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public. A man is more sure of his conduct when the verdict which he passes upon his own behavior is...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...deserving it. — If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.— Cotton. and next to encape the censures of the world. — If the last interfere with the first it should be...
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Century Readings for a Course in English Literature

John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - 1910 - 1176 pages
...55 Monday, July 9, 1711. walks down from his seat in the chancel [No. 122.] SIR ROGER AT THE ASSIZES liam Cunliffe public: a man is more sure of conduct, when the verdict which he passes upon his own behavior is thus...
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English Composition: With Chapters on Précis Writing, Prosody and Style

William Murison - 1910 - 416 pages
...heroes from the field of English literature. 8. Posterity commences at the Frontier. Introduction. " A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches...with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected. ADDISON. But in regard to literature, some critics bid us take the opinion of other nations in preference...
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Practical Lessons in English Grammar and Composition

Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender - 1911 - 404 pages
...distant waters roar. 50. Must we in all things look for the how and the why and the wherefore ? 51. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart. 52. He would carry a fowling piece on his shoulder for hours together. 53. It was the verger, who came...
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Exercises for Parsing and Analysis

Augusta Choate, Gertrude Hartman - 1912 - 174 pages
...ought to be the simplest affair in the world to light up a smudge. If thou wilt, we must hear thee. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censure of the world. We used to fix a little board outside the parlor window, and cover it with bread...
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An Advanced English Grammar: With Exercises

George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley - 1913 - 394 pages
...I was wonderfully pleased to see the workings of instinct in a hen followed by a brood of ducks. 5. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart. — ADDISON. 6. I was highly entertained to see the gentlemen of the county gathering about my old...
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English Spoken and Written: Practical lessons in English grammar and composition

Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender - 1913 - 408 pages
...distant waters roar. 50. Must we in all things look for the how and the why and the wherefore ? 51. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart. 52. He would carry a fowling piece .on his shoulder for hours together. 53. It was the verger, who...
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