The Spirit of the Age: Or Contemporary Portraits |
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Those who on pure cosmopolite principles , or on the ground of abstract
humanity affect an extraordinary regard for the Turks and Tartars , have been
accused of neglecting their duties to their friends and next - door neighbours .
Well , then ...
Those who on pure cosmopolite principles , or on the ground of abstract
humanity affect an extraordinary regard for the Turks and Tartars , have been
accused of neglecting their duties to their friends and next - door neighbours .
Well , then ...
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... he has scarcely friend or foe, the world make a point (as Goldsmith used to say
) of taking no more notice of him than if such an individual had never existed; he
is to all ordinary intents and purposes dead and buried; but the author of Political
...
... he has scarcely friend or foe, the world make a point (as Goldsmith used to say
) of taking no more notice of him than if such an individual had never existed; he
is to all ordinary intents and purposes dead and buried; but the author of Political
...
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... he has no train of admirers , no one thinks it worth his while even to traduce
and vilify him , he has scarcely friend or foe , the world make a point ( as
Goldsmith used to say ) of taking no more notice of him than if such an individual
had never ...
... he has no train of admirers , no one thinks it worth his while even to traduce
and vilify him , he has scarcely friend or foe , the world make a point ( as
Goldsmith used to say ) of taking no more notice of him than if such an individual
had never ...
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Gratitude , promises , friendship , family affection give way , not that they may be
merged in the opposite vices or in want of principle ; but that the void may be
filled up by the disinterested love of good , and the dictates of inflexible justice ...
Gratitude , promises , friendship , family affection give way , not that they may be
merged in the opposite vices or in want of principle ; but that the void may be
filled up by the disinterested love of good , and the dictates of inflexible justice ...
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birth in morals , it may be worth noticing , that volumes of sermons have been
written to excuse the founder of Christianity for not including friendship and
private affection among its golden rules , but rather excluding them . * Moreover ,
the ...
birth in morals , it may be worth noticing , that volumes of sermons have been
written to excuse the founder of Christianity for not including friendship and
private affection among its golden rules , but rather excluding them . * Moreover ,
the ...
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