Fugitive Pieces on Various Subjects: A vindication of natural societyRobert Dodsley J. Dodsley, 1771 - English essays |
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... History and Experience , how far Policy has contributed in all Times to alleviate those Evils which Providence , that perhaps has de- figned us for a State of Imperfection , has imposed ; how far our phyfical Skill has cured our ...
... History and Experience , how far Policy has contributed in all Times to alleviate those Evils which Providence , that perhaps has de- figned us for a State of Imperfection , has imposed ; how far our phyfical Skill has cured our ...
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... History . But , alas ! all the History of all Times , concerning all Nations , does not afford Matter enough to fill ten Pages , though it should be fpun out by the Wire - drawing Amplification of a Guicciardini himself . The glaring ...
... History . But , alas ! all the History of all Times , concerning all Nations , does not afford Matter enough to fill ten Pages , though it should be fpun out by the Wire - drawing Amplification of a Guicciardini himself . The glaring ...
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... History is dark and uncertain . One thing however is clear . There were Conquerors , and Conquests in those Days ; and confequently all that Devastation by which they are formed , and all that Oppreffion by which they are maintained ...
... History is dark and uncertain . One thing however is clear . There were Conquerors , and Conquests in those Days ; and confequently all that Devastation by which they are formed , and all that Oppreffion by which they are maintained ...
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... History dyed in Blood , and blotted and confounded by Tumults , Rebellions , Maffacres , Affaffinations , Profcriptions , and a Se- ries of Horror beyond the Hiftories perhaps of any other Nations in the World ; though the Hiftories of ...
... History dyed in Blood , and blotted and confounded by Tumults , Rebellions , Maffacres , Affaffinations , Profcriptions , and a Se- ries of Horror beyond the Hiftories perhaps of any other Nations in the World ; though the Hiftories of ...
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... History but partially , in an indiftinct confused Manner ; fo that I shall only throw the strong Point of Light upon that Part which coincides with Roman History , and of that Part only on the Point of Time when they received the great ...
... History but partially , in an indiftinct confused Manner ; fo that I shall only throw the strong Point of Light upon that Part which coincides with Roman History , and of that Part only on the Point of Time when they received the great ...
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