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" I should not account the debts incurred debts of honour; and should hardly scruple, had I not indirectly promised payment, by asking time for it, or had they refused to give it, to call in to my aid the laws of my country; and the rather, as the appeal... "
The novels of Samuel Richardson, esq. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the ... - Página 482
por Samuel Richardson - 1824
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A Collection of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions, and ...

Samuel Richardson - 1755 - 428 páginas
...only coniblaton which can weaken the force of worldly difappointments, iv. 171. [v. 42]. Adverfity is the trial of principle : Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is an honeft man, iv. 196. [v. 67]. Ill-news obliges us to look around us for confolation, iv. 233. [v. 104]....
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The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters, Volumen5

Samuel Richardson - 1776 - 336 páginas
...to thofe laws would be a fecurity to. me, againft ever again being feea in fuch company. Adverfity is the trial of principle : Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is an honeft man. Two things my coufin, in his prefent diffi. culties, muft guard againfl ; the one, that...
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The Miscellaneous Works: Apothegms and maxims for the good conduct of life ...

Gorges Edmond Howard - 1782 - 376 páginas
...which lead us to expect what is not to be found, than from the miferies we daily encounter. Adverfity is the trial of principle ; without it, a man hardly knows whether he is an honeft man. A wife man will bring his mind to bear inevitable evils, and to make a virtue of necefllty....
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Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors ...

General reader - 1827 - 246 páginas
...excels them all. To which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance. — Wm. Penn, ADVERSITY Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is an honest man. — Sir Charles Grandison. • ' SPENCER AND SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. — Spencer was a stranger to Sir Philip...
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Eliza Cook's journal, Volumen4

432 páginas
...doing no harm and occasioning no trouhle to society. HE who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke. ADVERSITY is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is nn honest man. IF none were to reprove the vicious, excepting those who sincerely hate vice, there...
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 páginas
...it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. — Burke. ADVERSITY TRIES us. — Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. — Fielding. ADVERSITY, WHAT IT TEACHES. — He that has never known adversity, is...
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Friends for the fireside: recollections [&c.].

Anne Mathews - 1860 - 380 páginas
...unwillingness to place herself among his learned friends : — " Silence is the female's ornament." Adversity is the trial of principle ; without it a man hardly knows whether he is an honest man. The Council of Trent treats the combatants who fall in a duel as self-murderers, and denies them Christian...
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Burton Abbots: a woman's story, Volumen2

Burton Abbots - 1863 - 360 páginas
...simples grow which cure the heartache."' HYPERION. " Strong reasons make strong actions." SHAKESPEABB. " Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not." THE morrow came — a pouring wet day. Cecil had a headache, and I persuaded her to...
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Diamond Dust

Eliza Cook - 1865 - 216 páginas
...ourselves most completely in our manner of praising. HE who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke. ADVERSITY is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is an honest man. IF none were to reprove the vicious, excepting those who sincerely hate vice, there would be much less...
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Scott's Monthly Magazine, Volumen4

1867 - 488 páginas
...for six thousand years, and few have learned yet that their fellow beings are as good as themselves. ADVERSITY is the trial of principle ; without it a man hardly knows whether he is au honest mau. A CODNTBY editor, describing the bonnets now in fashion : " They have a downward slant...
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