North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 8Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1965 Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 62
... virtue would have sufficed to have fixed all human prosperity on the head of Buonaparte . But the divine spark dwelt ... virtues of Washington or to the con- quests of Attila : but it was easier to reach the confines of the civilized ...
... virtue would have sufficed to have fixed all human prosperity on the head of Buonaparte . But the divine spark dwelt ... virtues of Washington or to the con- quests of Attila : but it was easier to reach the confines of the civilized ...
Page 73
... virtue , -if the historian finds much to censure . It ought not to be demanded of our ancestors , that they should be entirely free from the vices of the times in which they lived , or from the faults to which their situation ...
... virtue , -if the historian finds much to censure . It ought not to be demanded of our ancestors , that they should be entirely free from the vices of the times in which they lived , or from the faults to which their situation ...
Page 386
... virtue of a high stamp , a vir- tue almost peculiarly christian . It implies the dominion of principle over some of the strongest passions of our nature , the promptings of revenge , the pride of self - respect , the sense of reputation ...
... virtue of a high stamp , a vir- tue almost peculiarly christian . It implies the dominion of principle over some of the strongest passions of our nature , the promptings of revenge , the pride of self - respect , the sense of reputation ...
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