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O'brien Fitz-james - The Diamond Lens
[ FICTION]
... instruments. Like all active microscopists, I gave my imagination full play. Indeed, it is a common complaint against many such, that they supply the defects of their instruments with the creations of their brains. I imagined depths beyond depths in Nature which the limited power of my lenses prohibited me ...
Gibbon Edward - The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, Vi
[ ENGLISH ESSAYS]
... their conquest, and the terror of their arms, imposed silence on the captive land: their dispersion betrayed the smallness of their numbers and the defects of their discipline; and some failures and mischances revealed the secret, that they were not invincible. As the fears of the Greeks abated, their hatred ...
Plutarque - Lycurgus
[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
... a man? They used them thus early to pass a right judgment upon persons and things, and to inform themselves of the abilities or defects of their countrymen. If they had not an answer ready to the question, Who was a good or who an ill-reputed citizen, they were ...
Balzac Honoré De - The Lily Of The Valley
[ FRENCH FICTION]
... and water within me! Is it possible that you don''t know women? Believe me, they are what they are, and they have therefore the defects of their virtues. You met Lady Dudley too early in life to appreciate her, and the harm you say of her seems to me the ...
White Andrew Dickson - Autobiography Of Andrew Dickson White
[ MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
... of James Russell Lowell, which made Northern pro-slavery men ridiculous, were read with more zest than ever. But the abolition forces had the defects of their qualities, and their main difficulty really arose from the stimulus given to a thin fanaticism. There followed, in the train of the nobler ...
Jones Richard - An Essay On The Distribution Of Wealth And On The Sources Of Taxation
[ GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIC WORKS - IN OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES]
... owners of slaves, they will evidently be obliged for some generations to retain that of despots, and there is some danger, that the ordinary defects of their form of government will mar their really humane efforts as landed proprietors. The officers of the Russian government are proverbially ill paid; oppression ...
Gregory Eliot - Worldly Ways And Byways
[ FICTION]
... suns that illuminate our system. If on these luminaries observers have discovered spots, it is well to remember that these blemishes are but the defects of their qualities, and better far than the total eclipse that shrouds so large a part of humanity in colorless complacency. It will never be ...
Veblen Thorstein - The Higher Learning In America: A Memorandum On The Conduct Of Universities By Business Men
[ GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIC WORKS - IN OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES]
... this line as much as for their scholarly attainments, or at least so one might infer; and these men must be accepted with the defects of their qualities. As bearing on this whole matter of pomp and circumstance, social amenities and ritual dissipation, quasi-learned demonstrations and meretricious publicity, in ...
Godwin William - Enquiry Concerning Political Justice And Its Influence On Modern Morals And Happiness
[ GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIC WORKS - IN OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES]
... The attention of these beings was conceived to be principally directed to the ceremonial of religion, and very little to the moral excellencies and defects of their votaries, which were supposed to be sufficiently provided for by the inevitable tendency of moral excellence or defect to increase or diminish individual ...
Ferguson Adam - An Essay On The History Of Civil Society
[ ENGLISH ESSAYS]
... tends to sanctify violence, inspires likewise certain maxims of generosity and honour, that tend to prevent the commission of wrongs. Men bear with the defects of their policy, as they do with hardships and inconveniencies in their manner of living. The alarms and the fatigues of war become a necessary ...

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