The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Bind 2Vernor and Hood; John Walker; Cuthell and Martin; W.J. and J. Richardson; Longman and Rees; R. Lea; and J. and A. Arch. ; T. Maiden, printer, Sherbourn-Lane, 1804 |
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Discretion , the more it is discovered , gives a greater authority to the person who possesses it : Cunning , when it is once detected , loses its force , and makes a man incapable of bringing about even those events which he might have ...
Discretion , the more it is discovered , gives a greater authority to the person who possesses it : Cunning , when it is once detected , loses its force , and makes a man incapable of bringing about even those events which he might have ...
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My reader will observe how agreeable this maxim is to what we find delivered by a greater authority . Seneca has written a discourse purposely on this subject , in which he takes pains , after the doctrine of the Stoics , to shew that ...
My reader will observe how agreeable this maxim is to what we find delivered by a greater authority . Seneca has written a discourse purposely on this subject , in which he takes pains , after the doctrine of the Stoics , to shew that ...
Side 49
Were women admitted to plead in courts of judicature , I am persuaded they would carry the eloquence of the bar to greater heights than it has yet arrived at . If any one doubts this , let him but be present at those debates which ...
Were women admitted to plead in courts of judicature , I am persuaded they would carry the eloquence of the bar to greater heights than it has yet arrived at . If any one doubts this , let him but be present at those debates which ...
Side 50
I have been often puzzled to assign a cause why women should have this talent of a ready utterance in so much greater perfection than men . I have sometimes fancied that they have not a retentive power , or the faculty of suppressing ...
I have been often puzzled to assign a cause why women should have this talent of a ready utterance in so much greater perfection than men . I have sometimes fancied that they have not a retentive power , or the faculty of suppressing ...
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... who are free from this natural perverseness of temper , grow wary in their praises of one who sets too great a value on them , lest they should raise him too high in his own imagination , and by consequence remove him to a greater ...
... who are free from this natural perverseness of temper , grow wary in their praises of one who sets too great a value on them , lest they should raise him too high in his own imagination , and by consequence remove him to a greater ...
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| Titel | The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Bind 2 The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Joseph Addison |
| Forfatter | Joseph Addison |
| Udgiver | Vernor and Hood; John Walker; Cuthell and Martin; W.J. and J. Richardson; Longman and Rees; R. Lea; and J. and A. Arch. ; T. Maiden, printer, Sherbourn-Lane, 1804 |
| Oprindeligt fra | Harvard University |
| Digitaliseret | 17. jan 2008 |
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