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... wish you A wave o ' the sea , that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still , still so , and own No other function : each your doing , So singular in each particular , Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds , That all ...
... wish you A wave o ' the sea , that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still , still so , and own No other function : each your doing , So singular in each particular , Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds , That all ...
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... wish to act in his interest , to let it alone , and suffer him to remain at the school of the most competent schoolmaster , experience . No man should preach , except by example , or in answering questions , or in a building full of ...
... wish to act in his interest , to let it alone , and suffer him to remain at the school of the most competent schoolmaster , experience . No man should preach , except by example , or in answering questions , or in a building full of ...
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... eulogized ? Why should it not please the gods as much to have a man happy now as in another world ? And does it not honor them to ascribe to them so amiable a wish ? CHAPTER XIX ON BOOKS NEXT to the garden comes the 154 THE ART OF ...
... eulogized ? Why should it not please the gods as much to have a man happy now as in another world ? And does it not honor them to ascribe to them so amiable a wish ? CHAPTER XIX ON BOOKS NEXT to the garden comes the 154 THE ART OF ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE | 9 |
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS | 13 |
ALTRUISM | 17 |
Copyright | |
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