Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately |
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... advantage of wider experience on those who have not skill in profiting by experience , is to attempt enlarging the prospect of a short - sighted man by bringing him to the top of a hill . Since he could not , on the plain , see ...
... advantage of wider experience on those who have not skill in profiting by experience , is to attempt enlarging the prospect of a short - sighted man by bringing him to the top of a hill . Since he could not , on the plain , see ...
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... advantage , as with the merchant , but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight , that doth not show the masques , and mum- meries , and triumphs of the world , half so stately and daintily ...
... advantage , as with the merchant , but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight , that doth not show the masques , and mum- meries , and triumphs of the world , half so stately and daintily ...
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... advantage being attain- able by departing from it ) , and also , that , even if some end , otherwise advantageous , could be promoted by such a departure , that alone would constitute it an evil ; -that truth , in short , is in itself ...
... advantage being attain- able by departing from it ) , and also , that , even if some end , otherwise advantageous , could be promoted by such a departure , that alone would constitute it an evil ; -that truth , in short , is in itself ...
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... advantage : but , in a zealous and able partisan , falsehood in the cause of the party will often be pardoned , and even justified . We have lived to see the system called ' phe- nakism , ' ' double - doctrine , ' or ' economy ...
... advantage : but , in a zealous and able partisan , falsehood in the cause of the party will often be pardoned , and even justified . We have lived to see the system called ' phe- nakism , ' ' double - doctrine , ' or ' economy ...
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... advantages , we will do for spiritual .'- Bishop Hall . 7 Mortification . The subduing of sinful propensities . ( Our modern use never occurs in Scripture , where the word always means to put to death . ' ) ' You see no real ...
... advantages , we will do for spiritual .'- Bishop Hall . 7 Mortification . The subduing of sinful propensities . ( Our modern use never occurs in Scripture , where the word always means to put to death . ' ) ' You see no real ...
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Common terms and phrases
advantage Æneid ancient ANNOTATIONS ANTITHETA Aristotle atheists Augustus Cæsar Bacon believe better Bishop Butler Cæsar called cause character christian Church common commonly contrary counsel course cunning danger desire divine doctrine doth doubt Edinburgh Review effect envy Epicurus error ESSAY evil favour fear feel Galba give hath helotism Henry VII honour human important infallible instance judgment Julius Cæsar keep kind king labour less maketh man's matter means men's ment merely mind moral nature never object observed opinion opposite party perceive perhaps persons political Pompey practice princes principle profess racter reason regard religion religious remarkable Roman Roman Catholic saith Scripture seditions sense side sometimes speak superstition supposed sure Tacitus things thou thought tion true truth unto usury Vespasian virtue wealth wisdom wise word