 | 1792 - 684 pagine
...exrrcife of reafon on the blar<k checks, which before were only undulated by dim). les, might reftore loft dignity to the character, or rather enable it to attain the true dignity ot its nature. Virtue is not to be acquired even by fpeculation, much lefs by the negative fupinenefs... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1792 - 612 pagine
...exercife of resfon on the blank cheeks, which before were only undulated by dimples, might reitoie loll dignity to the character, or rather enable it to attain...of its nature. Virtue is not to be acquired even by fpeculation, much lefs by the negative fupinenefs that wealth naturally generates. ' Befides, when... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1796 - 504 pagine
...cheeks, which before^were only undulated by dimples, might reftore loft dignity to the chara£ter, or rather enable it to attain the true dignity of its nature. Virtue is not to be acquired even by fpeculation, much lefs by the negative fupinenefs that wealth naturally generates. Befides, when poverty... | |
 | 460 pagine
...were only undulated by dimples, might reftofe loft dignity tothe character, or rather enable it t» attain the true dignity of its nature. Virtue is not to be acquired even by fpeculation, much lefs by the negative fupinenefs that wealth naturally generates. ' Befides, when... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1833 - 234 pagine
...exercise of reason on the blank cheeks, which before were only undulated by dimples, might restore lost dignity to the character, or rather enable it to attain...of its nature. Virtue is not to be acquired even by speculation, much less by the negative supineness that wealth naturally generates. Besides, when poverty... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1891 - 314 pagine
...exercise of reason on the blank cheeks, which before were only undulated by dimples, might restore lost dignity to the character, or rather enable it to attain...of its nature. Virtue is not to be acquired even by speculation, much less by the negative supineness that wealth naturally generates. Besides, when poverty... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 442 pagine
...undulated by dimples, might restore lost dignity to the character, or rather enable it to attain to the true dignity of its nature. Virtue is not to be acquired even by speculation, much less by the negative supineness that wealth naturally generates. Beside, when poverty... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 432 pagine
...undulated by dimples, might restore lost dignity to the character, or rather enable it to attain to the true dignity of its nature. Virtue is not to be acquired even by speculation, much less by the negative supineness that wealth naturally generates. Beside, when poverty... | |
 | Albert Benedict Wolfe - 1916 - 828 pagine
...exercise of reason on their blank cheeks, which before were only undulated by dimples, might restore lost dignity to the character, or rather enable it to attain...of its nature. Virtue is not to be acquired even by speculation, much less by the negative supineness which wealth naturally generates. I cannot help lamenting... | |
 | Carl Henry Grabo - 1927 - 544 pagine
...exercise of reason on the blank cheeks, which before were only undulated by dimples, might restore lost dignity to the character, or rather enable it to attain...of its nature. Virtue is not to be acquired even by speculation, much less by the negative supineness that wealth naturally generates. Besides, when poverty... | |
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I am much mistaken if some latent vigour would not soon give health and spirit to their eyes, and some lines drawn by the exercise of reason on the blank cheeks, which before were only undulated by dimples, might restore lost dignity to the character,... 
