Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately |
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... sure to die before forty . And yet not only are men tempted by high wages to engage in this employment , but they resist to the utmost all the con- trivances devised for diminishing the danger ; through fear that this would cause more ...
... sure to die before forty . And yet not only are men tempted by high wages to engage in this employment , but they resist to the utmost all the con- trivances devised for diminishing the danger ; through fear that this would cause more ...
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... sure , in some way , whether by their death , banishment , incarceration , or otherwise , that they shall be effectually prevented from propagating their errors . But ( 2 ) even if a ruler admits himself to be not completely infallible ...
... sure , in some way , whether by their death , banishment , incarceration , or otherwise , that they shall be effectually prevented from propagating their errors . But ( 2 ) even if a ruler admits himself to be not completely infallible ...
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... sure , whether he fully embraced the principle that all secular coercion , small or great , in what regards religious faith , is contrary to the spirit of Christianity ; and that a man's religion , as long as he conducts himself as a ...
... sure , whether he fully embraced the principle that all secular coercion , small or great , in what regards religious faith , is contrary to the spirit of Christianity ; and that a man's religion , as long as he conducts himself as a ...
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... sure , saith , ' It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence . " That which is past is gone and irrecoverable , and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come ; therefore they do but trifle with themselves , that ...
... sure , saith , ' It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence . " That which is past is gone and irrecoverable , and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come ; therefore they do but trifle with themselves , that ...
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... , and believes himself to have , a great turn for such and such a profession , you should make sure that he understands what the profession is , and has faculties for what it really does require . 84 [ Essay vii . Of Parents and Children .
... , and believes himself to have , a great turn for such and such a profession , you should make sure that he understands what the profession is , and has faculties for what it really does require . 84 [ Essay vii . Of Parents and Children .
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Common terms and phrases
advantage Æneid ancient ANNOTATIONS ANTITHETA Aristotle atheists Augustus Cæsar Bacon believe better Bishop Butler Cæsar called cause character christian Church common commonly contrary counsel course cunning danger desire divine doctrine doth doubt Edinburgh Review effect envy Epicurus error ESSAY evil favour fear feel Galba give hath helotism Henry VII honour human important infallible instance judgment Julius Cæsar keep kind king labour less maketh man's matter means men's ment merely mind moral nature never object observed opinion opposite party perceive perhaps persons political Pompey practice princes principle profess racter reason regard religion religious remarkable Roman Roman Catholic saith Scripture seditions sense side sometimes speak superstition supposed sure Tacitus things thou thought tion true truth unto usury Vespasian virtue wealth wisdom wise word