The Book of Human Character, المجلد 1

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Knight, 1837

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Who spin too finely
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Who adopt too high a Standard
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Lookerson
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Who are best described by Negatives
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Who go Abroad and see Nothing
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Who are on a Level with their Art and
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Who march before the public Mind
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Who are supposed to be known by their Prayers casual Speeches
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Who love Justice and yet have
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Nosce teipsum Judgment
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Who call Names
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Who exemplify the Maxim that slight Touches
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Who may be known by the Pictures they give of their
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Whose one bad Quality neutralizes their Virtues
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Who are known by their Mottos
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Who set another Mans one Error against the thou
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Who are known by their Manners at Play
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Prejudices
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Who may be judged of from light Circumstances
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Who may be judged of by their Furniture
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Who censure and yet pursue the same Course
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Who appreciate according to their mental analogies
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Who take Praise to others as Censure on themselves
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Who are ever ready to throw the Blame off their
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Who study Deformity the better to judge of Beauty
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Who will permit no one to be a Prophet in his
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Who are known by the Titles of their Works
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Authors judged of from their Heroes
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Who accuse others of what they are guilty of them
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Who see clearly and yet represent superficially
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Who delight in drawing Parallels
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Who are destitute of Precision
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Who are ignorant of their own Writings
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Who admire what they do not understand
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Who convert Vices into Virtues as long as they
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Who may be known by their Writings in general
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Who draw their own Portraits in that of their Enemies
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Open Characters
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Selfconfessors
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Who commit Evil for the sake of the Good
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Who do good Actions with vile Motives
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Bad Men who have done good Actions
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Who have innocently committed bad Actions
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Who form classes of themselves
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Who have committed bad Actions with noble Views
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Who are cruel in general yet clement in particular
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Who delude themselves into a belief that they have done no bad Actions
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Simplicity of Character
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Who are combinations of Solecisms
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Who suspend their natural Characters
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Who are different at different Times
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Who are different in different Places
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Who act against their own Dispositions
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Who act contrary to their real Characters
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On human Inconsistencies
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Inconsistencies of eminent Men
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Who are inconsistent only in Appearance
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Who resemble eminent Men in Part
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Motives
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On the Ease with which the Healthy can prescribe for the Sick
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Who make no Allowances for Temptation
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The Tempters and the Tempted
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Weaknesses of eminent Men
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Whose Actions cannot be adequately appreciated
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Whose Characters do not appear till the Time for Action arrives
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Persons whom it is difficult to know
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Who are not appreciated till after they are dead
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Who are condemned for the Want of giving Explana tion
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Who neglect small Things
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Who are blamed unjustly
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Difficult and easy Virtues
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Who unite Elegance to Strength and Vulgarity to Elegance
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Who judge others by themselves
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Who judge Men by their Countenances
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Who cannot follow their own Lessons
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Orders of Men in respect to Dexterity
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Lovers of Uncertainty
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Whose Lives are perpetual Series of Struggles
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Who turn on those who successfully continue their own Game
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Who are ever in haste about Nothing
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Who take advantage of virtuous Sentiments to do un worthy Actions
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Who believe themselves beyond the reach of Imposi tion
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الصفحة 319 - Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the archangel ; but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd ; and care Sat on his faded cheek ; but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge...
الصفحة 137 - The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving-delicate and full of life, Into the eye and prospect of his soul, Than when she liv'd indeed...
الصفحة 78 - Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
الصفحة 305 - Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
الصفحة 54 - Fools ! Who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white?
الصفحة 220 - Study therefore the great works of the great masters, for ever. Study as nearly as you can, in the order, in the manner, and on the principles, on which they studied. Study nature attentively, but always with those masters in your company ; consider them as models which you are to imitate, and at the same time as rivals with whom you are to contend.
الصفحة 302 - What, what is virtue, but repose of mind, A pure ethereal calm, that knows no storm ; Above the reach of wild Ambition's wind, Above those passions that this world deform, And torture man, a proud malignant worm ? But here, instead, soft gales of passion play, And gently stir the heart, thereby to form A quicker sense of joy ; as breezes stray Across th' enliven'd skies, and make them still more gay.
الصفحة 304 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
الصفحة 311 - What a confused chaos ! What a subject of contradiction ! A professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth ; the great depository and guardian of truth, and yet a mere huddle of uncertainty ; the glory and the scandal of the universe.
الصفحة 136 - The playful humour ; he could now endure (Himself grown sober in the vale of tears) And feel a parent's presence no restraint. But not to understand a treasure's worth Till time has stolen away the slighted good, Is cause of half the poverty we feel, And makes the world the wilderness it is.

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