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... virtue , and to preserve an unvaried regard to truth . For though it is un- doubtedly possible that a man , however cautious , may be sometimes deceived by an artful appearance of virtue , or by false evidences of guilt , such errors ...
... virtue , and to preserve an unvaried regard to truth . For though it is un- doubtedly possible that a man , however cautious , may be sometimes deceived by an artful appearance of virtue , or by false evidences of guilt , such errors ...
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... virtue , and was indeed not so much a good man , as the friend of goodness . This at least must be allowed him , that he always preserved a strong sense of the dignity , the beauty , and the necessity of virtue ; and that he never con ...
... virtue , and was indeed not so much a good man , as the friend of goodness . This at least must be allowed him , that he always preserved a strong sense of the dignity , the beauty , and the necessity of virtue ; and that he never con ...
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... virtue to wickedness , and from religion to infidelity , by all the modish sophistry used for that › urpose ; and at last to dismiss him by his own hand nto the other world . That he did not execute this design is a real loss to mankind ...
... virtue to wickedness , and from religion to infidelity , by all the modish sophistry used for that › urpose ; and at last to dismiss him by his own hand nto the other world . That he did not execute this design is a real loss to mankind ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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