Fugitive Pieces on Various Subjects: A vindication of natural societyRobert Dodsley J. Dodsley, 1771 - English essays |
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Page iii
... Mankind from every Species of ARTIFICIAL SOCIETY . In a LETTER to Lord **** • By a late NOBLE WRITER . First Printed in the Year 1756 . DJ VOL . II . B " ( RECAP ) 3584 374 ( RECAP ) V. 2 A Paffions of Mankind delineated ; in fhort ...
... Mankind from every Species of ARTIFICIAL SOCIETY . In a LETTER to Lord **** • By a late NOBLE WRITER . First Printed in the Year 1756 . DJ VOL . II . B " ( RECAP ) 3584 374 ( RECAP ) V. 2 A Paffions of Mankind delineated ; in fhort ...
Page iv
... Mankind than his Success . I cannot conceive how this fort of Writers propofe to compass the Defigns they pretend to have in View , by the Inftruments which they employ . Do they pretend to exalt the Mind of Man , by proving him no ...
... Mankind than his Success . I cannot conceive how this fort of Writers propofe to compass the Defigns they pretend to have in View , by the Inftruments which they employ . Do they pretend to exalt the Mind of Man , by proving him no ...
Page vii
... Mankind have to the find- ing and exaggerating Faults . The Editor is fatisfied that a Mind which has no Restraint from a Senfe of its own Weaknefs , of its fubordinate Rank in the Creation , and of the extreme Danger of letting the ...
... Mankind have to the find- ing and exaggerating Faults . The Editor is fatisfied that a Mind which has no Restraint from a Senfe of its own Weaknefs , of its fubordinate Rank in the Creation , and of the extreme Danger of letting the ...
Page 12
... Mankind has used from the Beginning of the World to this Day , in order to alleviate or cure them , has only ferved to introduce new Mischiefs , or to aggravate and inflame the old . Befides this , the Mind of Man itself is too active ...
... Mankind has used from the Beginning of the World to this Day , in order to alleviate or cure them , has only ferved to introduce new Mischiefs , or to aggravate and inflame the old . Befides this , the Mind of Man itself is too active ...
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... Mankind have gradually ' fallen . And fince it has fo happened , and that we owe an implicit Reverence to all the Inftitutions of our Ancestors , we fhall confider thefe Inftitutions with all that Modefty with which we ought to con ...
... Mankind have gradually ' fallen . And fince it has fo happened , and that we owe an implicit Reverence to all the Inftitutions of our Ancestors , we fhall confider thefe Inftitutions with all that Modefty with which we ought to con ...
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