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The European Magazine, and London Review - Page 89
1803
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Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...dissimulation hides. Opinions? they still take a wider range : Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. CCX1II. * / 3 • °P'' Perhaps a rhymer is as necessary among servants of a house, as...
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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic

Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...And never can restore. THE RULING PASSION. A passage of powerful invective from POPE'S Moral Esiays. MANNERS with fortunes, humours turn with climes. Tenets with books, and principles with times. Search then the ruling passion : There, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known...
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The letters of Horace Walpole, ed. by P. Cunningham, Volume 7

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1858 - 562 pages
...he will have the Seals, which Lord Suffolk's death has vacated.2 Ho died at the Bath on Saturday, 1 Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. — Po\*. — WALPOLE. 3 Lord Stormont succeeded. — CURKIKOIIAM. whither he was but just...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...hides : Opinions ? — they still take a wider range : Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. PABT III. SEARCH then the ruling passion : there alone, The wild are constant, and the...
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Poets of England and America; being selections from the best authors of both ...

England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...tedious road the weary wretch returns, And as he goes, the transient vision mourns. AMBROSE PHILIP*. MANNERS with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. Search then the ruling passion : There, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford, Volume 7

Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 556 pages
...he will have the Seals, which Lord Suffolk's death has vacated.2 He died at the Bath on Saturday, 1 Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.— Pope.— WALPOLN. • Lord Stormont succeeded. — C whither he was but just arrived...
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Companion to English Grammar ...

Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 pages
...dissimulation hides; Opinions ? they still take a wider range ; Find, if you can. in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. — Pope. (12) Farewell, a \ongfarewefl, to all my greatness. This is the state of man;...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...hides : Opinions ? — they still take a wider range : Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. PART SEARCH then the ruling passion : there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning...
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An index to familiar quotations selected principally from British authors ...

John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...ouly fix'd, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway. RULING PASSION.— Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. Search then the ruling passion : there alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known....
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The British Poets, Volume 2

1866 - 328 pages
...hides : Opinions ? — they still take a wider range : Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, • Tenets with books, and principles with tunes. PART IIL SEARCH then the ruling passion : there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning...
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