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" Search, then, the ruling passion :: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known .; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here... "
Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking - Page 293
by Leslie Stephen - 1908 - 410 pages
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...Manners with fortunes, humours turu with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. III. him, and which very ¡ much contributed to cover his defects, is a daring | f WIIAKTON stands confest. Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust...
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The venal indulgenees and pardons of the Church of Rome exemplified in a ...

Joseph Mendham - 1839 - 222 pages
...transactions ; it is eminently her ruling passion: find this, and the mystery so far throws aside its veil. Search then the ruling passion : there alone The wild...known ; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; [Popes, Papists, Jesuits,] no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest, The...
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Outlines of Imperfect and Disordered Mental Action

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1840 - 420 pages
...Duke of Wharton ; the key to whose character he finds in the excessive desire of human applause. " Search then the ruling passion. There alone The wild are constant and the cunning known ; This clew, once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confess'd....
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...change. Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. and oft Curs'd his creation ; Death as oft accus'd...Death," Said he, " with one thrice-acceptable stroke Wharlon stands confest. Wharlon, the scorn and wonder of our days. Whose ruling passion was the lust...
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Elements of Mental Philosophy Enbracing the Two Departments of the ..., Volume 2

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 512 pages
...the Duke of Wharton ; the key to whose character he finds in the excessive desire of human applause. "Search then the ruling passion. There alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; This clew, once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confess'd....
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Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for ...

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1842 - 516 pages
...the excessive desire of human applause. * Dr. Rush on the Diseases of the Mind, 2d. ed., p. 113. " Search then the ruling passion. There alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; This clew once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confess'd. W...
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...change. Manners with fortunes, humors tum with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. Enter The Two BROTHERS. uuravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest. Wharton, the scorn and wonder...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...change. Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, » Tenets with books, and principles with times. unrarels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands conlest Wharton, the scorn and wonder...
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Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 pages
...be found in all ages to repeat as much after Shakspeare's Juliet ! ESSAY XXXIII. The Main Chance. " Search then the ruling passion : there alone The wild...known, The fool consistent, and the false sincere : This clue once found unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confest."—...
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Elements of Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Two Departments of ..., Volume 2

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1845 - 488 pages
...Duke of Wharton ; the key to whose character he finds in the excessive desire of human applause. " Search then the ruling passion. There alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; This clew, once found, unravels all the rest, The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confess'd....
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