An Essay on Military Educationauthor; and sold, 1776 - 106 Seiten |
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... less than all its graces and virtues . Many groundless prejudices and weak and unworthy practices have concurred , to render that profeffion in fome degree odious . In all modern free states , like this , the common cen- fure describes ...
... less than all its graces and virtues . Many groundless prejudices and weak and unworthy practices have concurred , to render that profeffion in fome degree odious . In all modern free states , like this , the common cen- fure describes ...
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... less culpable , and less disgraceful , in him , than in another man ? If the private men should happen at any time to be guilty of tumult and outrage , it could arife only from ignorant pre- fumption , and would be immediately checked ...
... less culpable , and less disgraceful , in him , than in another man ? If the private men should happen at any time to be guilty of tumult and outrage , it could arife only from ignorant pre- fumption , and would be immediately checked ...
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... less quick at invention ; but he is more patient , and more perfevering in the improvement of fuggested knowledge : he has a more generous fenfe of the obligations of duty in civil and political life ; and a much higher principle , to ...
... less quick at invention ; but he is more patient , and more perfevering in the improvement of fuggested knowledge : he has a more generous fenfe of the obligations of duty in civil and political life ; and a much higher principle , to ...
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... less insensible to the poig- nancy of ridicule , than to the rebukes of con- science , it is to be wished , that the wit of man- kind was united to laugh it out of the world . But it is born of fuch evil paffions , and produces fuch ...
... less insensible to the poig- nancy of ridicule , than to the rebukes of con- science , it is to be wished , that the wit of man- kind was united to laugh it out of the world . But it is born of fuch evil paffions , and produces fuch ...
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... less than the discharge of his duty , requires an expertnefs in it which fre- quent practice only can give . The Romans confidered it as fuch an indifpenfable article in an improved 2 con- ( 34 ) imputation of cowardice, that, as ...
... less than the discharge of his duty , requires an expertnefs in it which fre- quent practice only can give . The Romans confidered it as fuch an indifpenfable article in an improved 2 con- ( 34 ) imputation of cowardice, that, as ...
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