Essays and treatises on several subjects ... A new edition, Band 1T. Cadell, 1772 |
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... perfection , beyond which it is never able to advance a single step . What a wide difference is there between these creatures ! And how exalted a notion must we entertain of the former , in comparison of the latter ! There are two means ...
... perfection , beyond which it is never able to advance a single step . What a wide difference is there between these creatures ! And how exalted a notion must we entertain of the former , in comparison of the latter ! There are two means ...
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... perfection by the GREEKS , amidft continual wars , at- tended with poverty , and the greateft fimplicity of life and manners . It had also been obferved , that , when the GREEKS loft their liberty , though they increased mightily in ...
... perfection by the GREEKS , amidft continual wars , at- tended with poverty , and the greateft fimplicity of life and manners . It had also been obferved , that , when the GREEKS loft their liberty , though they increased mightily in ...
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... perfection all the finer arts of fculp- ture , painting , and music , as well as poetry , though it groaned under tyranny , and under the tyranny of priests : While the latter made its chief progrefs in the arts and fciences , after it ...
... perfection all the finer arts of fculp- ture , painting , and music , as well as poetry , though it groaned under tyranny , and under the tyranny of priests : While the latter made its chief progrefs in the arts and fciences , after it ...
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... perfection . It has become an established opinion , that commerce can never flourish but in a free government ; and this opinion feems to be founded on a longer and larger experience than the foregoing , with regard to the arts and ...
... perfection . It has become an established opinion , that commerce can never flourish but in a free government ; and this opinion feems to be founded on a longer and larger experience than the foregoing , with regard to the arts and ...
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... perfection . It may now be affirmed of civilized monarchies , what was formerly faid in praise of republics alone , that they are a government of Laws , not of Men . They are found fuf- ceptible of order , method , and conftancy , to a ...
... perfection . It may now be affirmed of civilized monarchies , what was formerly faid in praise of republics alone , that they are a government of Laws , not of Men . They are found fuf- ceptible of order , method , and conftancy , to a ...
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