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A Brief Memoir of the Life of William Penn: Compiled for the Use of Young ... - Page 37
by Priscilla Wakefield - 1833 - 231 pages
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 5

Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1811 - 456 pages
...in it; for, like drunkenness, it makes man a beast, and throws people into desperate inconveniences. Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise; their praise is costly, designing to get byt hose they bespeak; they are the worst of creatures; they lie to flatter, and flatter to cheat;...
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Select Reviews, Volume 5

1812 - 470 pages
...in it; for, like drunkenness, it makes man a beast, and throws people into desperate inconveniences. Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise; their praise is costly, designing to get byt hose they bespeak; they are the worst of creatures; they lie to flatter, and flatter to cheat;...
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Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn, Volume 1

Thomas Clarkson - Great Britain - 1813 - 562 pages
...drunkenness, it makes a man a beast, and throws people into desperate inconveniencies. " Avoid ! " Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise...they bespeak ; they are the worst of creatures; they lye to flatter, and flatter to cheat ; and, which is worse, if you believe them you cheat yourselves...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 10

1813 - 662 pages
...for lik« drunkenness, it makes a man a beast, and throws people into desperate inconveniences. "' Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise;...to get by those they bespeak ; they are the worst bf creatures ; they lie to flatter, and flatter to cheat ; and which i* worse, if you believe them...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

English poetry - 1814 - 1112 pages
...like drunkenness, it makes a man a beast, and throws people into desperate incoo veniencies. i ""' Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise:...they bespeak; they are the worst of creatures ; they lye to flatter, and flatter to cheat ; and, which is worse, if you believe them, you cheat yourselves...
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Tracts ..., Issues 1-30

New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Tract Association - 1824 - 430 pages
...fixed, be true, not wavering by reports, nor deserting in affliction, for that becomes not the good and virtuous. Watch against anger, neither speak nor act...that David, asking the Lord, who shall abide in thy ta~ 11 government of Pennsylvania, and my parts of East Jersey, especially the first, I do charge you,...
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The Select Works of William Penn, Volume 1

William Penn - Society of Friends - 1825 - 616 pages
...it makes a man a beast, and throws people h'to desperate inconveniencieg. • ' Avoid flat'erers ; for they are thieves in disguise ; their praise is...they bespeak ; they are the worst of creatures; they lye to flatter, and flatter to cheat : — and, which is worse, if you believe them, you cheat yourselves...
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Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn: Who ..., Volumes 1-2

Thomas Clarkson - Quakers - 1827 - 392 pages
...their praise isc''stlv, designing to get by those they bespeak ; they are the wo-'st of creitures; thev lie to flatter, and flatter to cheat; and, •which is worse, if you beli 've them you cheat yourselves most dangerously. But the virtuous, though poor, love, cherish,...
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The Life of William Penn

Mrs. Hughs (Mary) - 1828 - 242 pages
...it; for, like drunkenness, it makes a man a beast, and throws people into desperate inconveniences. "Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise...virtuous, though poor, love, cherish, and prefer. Remember David, who asking the Lord, ' Who shall abide in thy tabernacle1? who shall dwell upon thy holy hill1?'...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...it; for, like drunkenness, it makes a man a beast, and throws people into desperate inconveniences. flatterto Cheat ; and which ¡н worse, if you believe them, you chrat yourselves most dangerously....
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