Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: essays, moral, political and literary, Band 1Bell & Bradfute, 1825 - 544 Seiten |
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... Philosophers have endeavoured to render hap- piness entirely independent of every thing external . The degree of perfection is impossible to be attained ; but every wise man will endeavour to place his happiness on such objects chiefly ...
... Philosophers have endeavoured to render hap- piness entirely independent of every thing external . The degree of perfection is impossible to be attained ; but every wise man will endeavour to place his happiness on such objects chiefly ...
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... philosophers . The virtue and good intentions of Cato and Brutus are highly laudable ; but to what purpose did their zeal serve ? Only to hasten the fatal period of the Roman government , and render its convulsions and dying agonies ...
... philosophers . The virtue and good intentions of Cato and Brutus are highly laudable ; but to what purpose did their zeal serve ? Only to hasten the fatal period of the Roman government , and render its convulsions and dying agonies ...
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... philosophers and politi- cians , both ancient and modern . How much , therefore , would it have surprised such a ge- nius as Cicero or Tacitus , to have been told , that in a fu- ture age , there should arise a very regular system of ...
... philosophers and politi- cians , both ancient and modern . How much , therefore , would it have surprised such a ge- nius as Cicero or Tacitus , to have been told , that in a fu- ture age , there should arise a very regular system of ...
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... philosophers are of opinion , that this secret , like the grand elixir , or perpetual motion , may amuse men in theory , but can never possibly be reduced to practice . In despotic governments , indeed , factions often . do not appear ...
... philosophers are of opinion , that this secret , like the grand elixir , or perpetual motion , may amuse men in theory , but can never possibly be reduced to practice . In despotic governments , indeed , factions often . do not appear ...
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... philosophers and poets , as well as divines , from the beginning of the world to this day . Some exalt our species to the skies , and represent man as a kind of human demigod , who derives his origin from heaven , and retains evident ...
... philosophers and poets , as well as divines , from the beginning of the world to this day . Some exalt our species to the skies , and represent man as a kind of human demigod , who derives his origin from heaven , and retains evident ...
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