 ... precincts of a court, where we may learn to smile without being pleased, to caress without affection, to wound with the secret weapons of envy and jealousy, and to rest our personal importance on circumstances which we cannot always with honour command?...  An Essay on the History of Civil Society - Page 60de Adam Ferguson - 1789 - 424 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Adam Ferguson - 1805 - 80 pages
...circumstances which we cannot always with honour command ! No : but in a situation where the great sentiments of the heart are awakened; where the characters of men, not their situations and fortunes, are' the principal distinction ; where the anxieties of interest or vanity... | |
 | Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - 1994 - 1398 pages
...to the slow track of the blindworm down the road; who prefers the baptism where the great sentiments of the heart are awakened; where the characters of men, not their situations and fortunes, are the principal distinction; where the anxieties of interest, or vanity,... | |
 | Adam Ferguson - 1789 - 448 pages
...with the fecret weapons of envy and jealoufy, and to reft our perfonal importance on circumftances which we cannot always with honour command? No : but...leave its talents and its force unemployed. PROPER occaficns alone operating on a raifed and a h.ippy difpofition, may produce this admirable cffect,... | |
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