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By dint of long consideration of the matter , I think I have discovered that a principle may be defined to be a rule ... There are , it is true , persons who consider principles very serviceable in the conduct of life , if it be only to ...
By dint of long consideration of the matter , I think I have discovered that a principle may be defined to be a rule ... There are , it is true , persons who consider principles very serviceable in the conduct of life , if it be only to ...
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No small benefit of this want of principle is the general ease which it confers on life . Your High Churchman is heated whenever men hint at ecclesiastical reform ; your Dissenter frets his bowels to fiddle - strings , because he cannot ...
No small benefit of this want of principle is the general ease which it confers on life . Your High Churchman is heated whenever men hint at ecclesiastical reform ; your Dissenter frets his bowels to fiddle - strings , because he cannot ...
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great fortunes built up , in which the danger has not upon some occasion been brusqué , and in which principle has not sometimes been set a leetle on one side to serve a turn . I repeat it , however , that a man of no principle is not ...
great fortunes built up , in which the danger has not upon some occasion been brusqué , and in which principle has not sometimes been set a leetle on one side to serve a turn . I repeat it , however , that a man of no principle is not ...
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Written on the Rhine by Walter Savage Landor Esq | 12 |
Subjects for Pictures By L E L 1 Calypso watching | 24 |
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