Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately |
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... tion ( which is also published separate ) of PROVERBS for Copy - lines , with short explanations annexed , for the use of young people . As a child can hardly fail to learn by heart , without effort or design , words which he has ...
... tion ( which is also published separate ) of PROVERBS for Copy - lines , with short explanations annexed , for the use of young people . As a child can hardly fail to learn by heart , without effort or design , words which he has ...
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... tion . Day is the thesis , night the antithesis , their relation the mesothesis of the triad , -for triad it is , and not a mere pair or duad , after all . It is the same with all the other couples cited above , and with all couples ...
... tion . Day is the thesis , night the antithesis , their relation the mesothesis of the triad , -for triad it is , and not a mere pair or duad , after all . It is the same with all the other couples cited above , and with all couples ...
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... tion , and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers , in great severity , called poesy vinum dæmonum , " because it filleth the imagination , and yet is but with the shadow of a lie . But it is not the lie that passeth through the ...
... tion , and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers , in great severity , called poesy vinum dæmonum , " because it filleth the imagination , and yet is but with the shadow of a lie . But it is not the lie that passeth through the ...
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... tion of any one of the human passions is probably not more attainable than perfect candour ; but we are not therefore to give a loose to the passions ; we are not to relax our efforts for the attainment of any virtue on the ground that ...
... tion of any one of the human passions is probably not more attainable than perfect candour ; but we are not therefore to give a loose to the passions ; we are not to relax our efforts for the attainment of any virtue on the ground that ...
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... tion of truth - Aversion to doubt - desire of a supposed happy medium - the love of system - the dread of the character of in- consistency - the love of novelty - the dread of innovation- undue deference to human authority - the love of ...
... tion of truth - Aversion to doubt - desire of a supposed happy medium - the love of system - the dread of the character of in- consistency - the love of novelty - the dread of innovation- undue deference to human authority - the love of ...
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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