Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobo… - Henry Bolingbroke
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobo…
- Henry Bolingbroke
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. - Henry Bolingbroke
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel. - Henry Bolingbroke
You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.
Nations, like men, have their infancy. - Henry Bolingbroke
Nations, like men, have their infancy.
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. - Henry Bolingbroke
Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more. - Henry Bolingbroke
Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.
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