Essays and treatises on several subjects ... A new edition, Band 1T. Cadell, 1772 |
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... appear to us too frivolous to engage our attention : And we shall lose by degrees that fenfibility and delicacy of paffion , which is fo incommodious . 1 But perhaps I have gone too far in faying , that a cul- tivated taste for the ...
... appear to us too frivolous to engage our attention : And we shall lose by degrees that fenfibility and delicacy of paffion , which is fo incommodious . 1 But perhaps I have gone too far in faying , that a cul- tivated taste for the ...
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... appear the moft advantageous ; yet a more accurate inspection will discover in it greater incon- veniencies than in the latter , and fuch as are founded on caufes and principles eternal and immutable . The fill- ing of the throne , in ...
... appear the moft advantageous ; yet a more accurate inspection will discover in it greater incon- veniencies than in the latter , and fuch as are founded on caufes and principles eternal and immutable . The fill- ing of the throne , in ...
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... appears more furprizing to thofe who confider human affairs with a philofophical eye , than the casiness with which the many are governed by the few ; and the implicit fubmiffion , with which men refign their own fentiments and paffions ...
... appears more furprizing to thofe who confider human affairs with a philofophical eye , than the casiness with which the many are governed by the few ; and the implicit fubmiffion , with which men refign their own fentiments and paffions ...
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... appear a greater contradiction in the frame of the human mind than the present . When men act in a faction , they are apt , without shame or remorse , to neglect all the ties of honour and morality , in order to serve their party ; and ...
... appear a greater contradiction in the frame of the human mind than the present . When men act in a faction , they are apt , without shame or remorse , to neglect all the ties of honour and morality , in order to serve their party ; and ...
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... appears fomewhat ftrange , that a maxim should be true in politics , which is false in fact . But to fatisfy us on this head , we may confider , that men are generally more honeft in their private than in their public capacity , and ...
... appears fomewhat ftrange , that a maxim should be true in politics , which is false in fact . But to fatisfy us on this head , we may confider , that men are generally more honeft in their private than in their public capacity , and ...
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