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... fame Effect as want of Virtue . Such an early fprouting Wit , requireth so much the more to be heltred by fome Rules , like fome- thing ftrew'd on tender Flowers , to preferve them from being blafted . You must take it well to be prun'd ...
... fame Effect as want of Virtue . Such an early fprouting Wit , requireth so much the more to be heltred by fome Rules , like fome- thing ftrew'd on tender Flowers , to preferve them from being blafted . You must take it well to be prun'd ...
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... fame Time ; and it is doing Violence to them both , to go about to have them feparated . Nothing is fo kind and so inviting as true and unfophifticated Religion : Inftead of impofing unneceffary Burdens upon our Nature , it eafeth us of ...
... fame Time ; and it is doing Violence to them both , to go about to have them feparated . Nothing is fo kind and so inviting as true and unfophifticated Religion : Inftead of impofing unneceffary Burdens upon our Nature , it eafeth us of ...
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... fame Cu- from , which is the more to be lamented for its being fo general , fhould make it lefs uneasy to every one in Particular who is to fuffer by the Effects of it : So that in the first Place , it will be no new Thing if you should ...
... fame Cu- from , which is the more to be lamented for its being fo general , fhould make it lefs uneasy to every one in Particular who is to fuffer by the Effects of it : So that in the first Place , it will be no new Thing if you should ...
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... fame Man who will grudge himself what is neceffary , let his Pride be raised and he fhall be profufe ; at another Time his Anger fhall have the fame Effect ; a Fit of Vanity , Ambition , and fome- times of Kindness , thall open and ...
... fame Man who will grudge himself what is neceffary , let his Pride be raised and he fhall be profufe ; at another Time his Anger fhall have the fame Effect ; a Fit of Vanity , Ambition , and fome- times of Kindness , thall open and ...
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... fame time refolve not to deferve it . Good Looks alone will not do ; they are not fuch a lafting Tenure , as to be relied upon ; and if they should stay longer than they usually do , it will by no means be fafe to depend upon them : For ...
... fame time refolve not to deferve it . Good Looks alone will not do ; they are not fuch a lafting Tenure , as to be relied upon ; and if they should stay longer than they usually do , it will by no means be fafe to depend upon them : For ...
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Page 14 - You must first lay it down for a Foundation in general, That there is Inequality in the Sexes...
Page 37 - Humour, and take the next Opportunity of pleasing them in some other thing, before they either ask or look for it: This will strengthen your Authority, by making it soft to them; and confirm their Obedience, by making it their Interest. You are to have as strict a Guard upon your self amongst your Children, as if you were amongst your Enemies.
Page 7 - Ladies are so extream stirring at Church, that one would swear the Worm in their Conscience made them so unquiet. Others will have such a Divided Face between a Devout Goggle and an Inviting Glance, that the unnatural Mixture maketh even the best Looks to be at that time ridiculous.
Page 153 - tis not peculiar to us, it rambles about the World, and is less kind to us than others; but for the Earth of England, tho perhaps inferior to that of many places abroad, to him there is Divinity in it, and he would rather dye, than see a spire of English Grass trampled down by a Foreign Trespasser...
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Page 273 - That the exalting his own Authority above his Laws, is like letting in his Enemy to surprize his Guards : The Laws are the only Guards he can be sure will never run away from him. 3. A Prince that will say he can do no Good, except he may do every thing; teacheth the People to say, They are Slaves, if they must not do whatever they have a mind to.
Page 280 - He hath no affectation to set himself out, and dependeth wholly upon the natural force of what is his own, and the excellent application...