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The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England to which is added an ... - Page 343
by Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.) - 1826
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The British Essayists, Volume 13

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 342 pages
...established as to be out of danger 1'rom the weakest. ' MR. SPECTATOR, ' My Lord Clarendon has observed, that few men have done more harm than those who have been...parts to do good, to be therefore incapable of doing huct. There is a supply of malice, of pride, of industry, »nd even of folly, in the weakest, when...
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 310 pages
...as to be out of danger from i he weakest. ' MR. SPECTATOR, , ' My Lord Clarendon has observed, thai few men have done more harm than those who have been...and there cannot be a greater error, than to believe « man, whom we see qualified with too mean parts to do good, to be therefore incapable of doing hurt....
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The Spectator, Volume 8

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 314 pages
...to be out of danger from the weakest. , ' MR. SPECTATOR, ' , ' My Lord Clarendon has observed, that few men have done more harm than those who have been...too mean parts to do good, to be therefore incapable ofdoing hurt. There is a supply of malice, of pride, of industry, and even of folly, in the weakest,...
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The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The ...

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 316 pages
...established as to be out of danger from the weakest. 'MR. SPECTATOR, ' My Lord Clarendon has observed, that few men have done more harm than those who have been...man, whom we see qualified with too mean parts to dp good, to be therefore incapable of doing hurt. There is a supply of malice, of pride, of industry,...
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The Spectator, Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 314 pages
...established as to be out of danger from the weakest. ' MR. SPECTATOR, ' My Lord Clarendon has observed, that few men have done more harm than those who have been thought to be able to do least j and there cannot be a greater error, than to believe a man, whom we see qualified with too mean parts...
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The Latin Tutor, Or, An Introduction to the Making of Latin: Containing a ...

Latin language - 1813 - 292 pages
...which I am designed. (Ituque adeo huic studio me totus addicam, quippe cut unice destinalus sum.) 2. There cannot be a greater error than to believe a man whom we see qualified with too mean abilities to do good, to be therefore, incapable of doing hurt. There is a fund of malic*-, of pride,...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 310 pages
...established as to be out of danger from the weakest. ' MR. SPECTATOR, ' MT Lord Clarendon has observed, that few men have done more harm than those who have been...cannot be a greater error, than to believe a man, iwhom we see qualified with to mean parts too do good, to be therefore incapable of doing hurt. There...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an ..., Volume 10

Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 298 pages
...things are in danger even from ihe weakest. ' MR. SPECTATOR, ' MY lord Clarendon has observed, ' that few men have done more harm than those who have been thought to be able to do least; and there can not be a greater, error, than to believe a man whom we see qualified with too mean parts to do...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 38-39

1828 - 592 pages
...Hume are not the only members who have intimated as much. And ' God knows,' says Lord Clarendon, ' few men have done more harm than those who have been thought able to do least ; and there cannot be a greater error than to believe a man whom we see qualified...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 38

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 646 pages
...Hume are not the only members who have intimated as much. And ' God knows,' says Lord Clarendon, ' few men have done more harm than those who have been thought able to do least ; and there cannot be a greater error than to believe a man whom we see qualified...
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