 | Addison (pseud.) - 1795 - 616 pages
...Education is the ruling motive in moft of the aftions of mankind ; they are more or lefs tractable, According as they have been more or lefs cultivated...infenfibly complaifant, without thinking of being fo. In fhort, habit is to them a fecond nature. We mould juftly confider religion as the moft eflentially... | |
 | 1810 - 234 pages
...<fec. <fec. Education is the ruling motive in most of the actions of mankind ; they are more or less cultivated in their youth. When they have been taught early to render themselves sociable, to bend their tempers and to accommodate their wills to those of others', it Arrows... | |
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According as they have been more or lefs cultivated in their youth. When they have been taught early to render themfelves fociable, to bend their tempers, and to accommodate their wills to thofe of others, it grows into a cuftom, and they become infenfibly... 