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... virtue with the true judges of human nature . What can be more nobly human than to have a tender sentimental feeling of our own and other's [ sic ] misfortunes ? This degree of sensibility every man ought to wish to have for his own ...
... virtue with the true judges of human nature . What can be more nobly human than to have a tender sentimental feeling of our own and other's [ sic ] misfortunes ? This degree of sensibility every man ought to wish to have for his own ...
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... virtue which he had thus derived he found that the world did not furnish any examples of people who lived up to the definition , and thus it became an ob- vious deduction that , since all is vicious , even matters beneficial to us arise ...
... virtue which he had thus derived he found that the world did not furnish any examples of people who lived up to the definition , and thus it became an ob- vious deduction that , since all is vicious , even matters beneficial to us arise ...
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... virtue were such as could genuinely involve and provoke the thought of his day . The conclusion reached by Mandeville that all human action is at bottom vicious was attained by a psychological analysis of human original , and literal ...
... virtue were such as could genuinely involve and provoke the thought of his day . The conclusion reached by Mandeville that all human action is at bottom vicious was attained by a psychological analysis of human original , and literal ...
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A Note in Defence of Satire 12 L | 12 |
The Authenticity of Anna Sewards Published Correspondence | 50 |
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