Fugitive Pieces on Various Subjects: A vindication of natural societyRobert Dodsley J. Dodsley, 1771 - English essays |
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... thing fhould bear to every other . These Relations , which are Truth itself , the Foundation of Virtue , and confequently the only Measures of Happiness , fhould be likewise the only Measures by which we fhould direct our Reafoning . To ...
... thing fhould bear to every other . These Relations , which are Truth itself , the Foundation of Virtue , and confequently the only Measures of Happiness , fhould be likewise the only Measures by which we fhould direct our Reafoning . To ...
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... thing neceffary , or even useful to our Well - being , we fhall , in Spite of us , draw in , as a neceffary , though undefirable Confe- quence , an artificial Religion of fome kind or other . To this the Vulgar will always be voluntary ...
... thing neceffary , or even useful to our Well - being , we fhall , in Spite of us , draw in , as a neceffary , though undefirable Confe- quence , an artificial Religion of fome kind or other . To this the Vulgar will always be voluntary ...
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... 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 . We know little of Sefoftris , but ...
... 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 . We know little of Sefoftris , but ...
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... thing I have said , concerning the Confequences of War even more dreadful than that monfterous Car- nage itself which shocks our Humanity , and almost staggers our Belief . So that , allowing me in my Ex- uberance one way , for my ...
... thing I have said , concerning the Confequences of War even more dreadful than that monfterous Car- nage itself which shocks our Humanity , and almost staggers our Belief . So that , allowing me in my Ex- uberance one way , for my ...
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... Thing , at the fame time that it is the most terrible and deftructive that well can be conceived . In a Defpotism the principal Perfon finds , that let the Want , Mifery , and Indigence of his Subjects , be what they will , he can yet ...
... Thing , at the fame time that it is the most terrible and deftructive that well can be conceived . In a Defpotism the principal Perfon finds , that let the Want , Mifery , and Indigence of his Subjects , be what they will , he can yet ...
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