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... rank , which allows her virtues to shine with extensive lustre , and to diffuse their auspicious influence over a whole land . That this influence of Your MA- JESTY'S virtues may long continue to be felt ; that while they alleviate the ...
... rank , which allows her virtues to shine with extensive lustre , and to diffuse their auspicious influence over a whole land . That this influence of Your MA- JESTY'S virtues may long continue to be felt ; that while they alleviate the ...
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... ranks of society . In their ideas of what constitutes honour , men greatly vary , and often grossly err . But of somewhat which they conceive to form VOL . III . B pre- I. I. SERMON pre - eminence and distinction , all are On the true ...
... ranks of society . In their ideas of what constitutes honour , men greatly vary , and often grossly err . But of somewhat which they conceive to form VOL . III . B pre- I. I. SERMON pre - eminence and distinction , all are On the true ...
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... rank or office . Were such distinctions always , or even generally , obtained in consequence of uncommon me- rit , they would indeed confer honour on the character . But , in the present state of society , it is too well known that this ...
... rank or office . Were such distinctions always , or even generally , obtained in consequence of uncommon me- rit , they would indeed confer honour on the character . But , in the present state of society , it is too well known that this ...
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... rank high among that class of beings to which he belongs ; in a word , we must look to the mind and the soul . A mind superior to fear , to selfish interest and corruption ; a mind governed by the principles of uni- form rectitude and ...
... rank high among that class of beings to which he belongs ; in a word , we must look to the mind and the soul . A mind superior to fear , to selfish interest and corruption ; a mind governed by the principles of uni- form rectitude and ...
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... rank which commands our deference . Where some shining quality attracts admiration , it is only to a part of the character that we pay ho- mage . But when a person is distinguished for eminent worth and goodness , it is the man , the ...
... rank which commands our deference . Where some shining quality attracts admiration , it is only to a part of the character that we pay ho- mage . But when a person is distinguished for eminent worth and goodness , it is the man , the ...
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