Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Band 1T. Cadell, 1784 - 527 Seiten |
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... shall keep . Philofophers have endeavoured to render happiness entirely independent of every thing external . That degree of perfection is impoffible to be attained : But every wife man will endeavour to place his happiness on such ...
... shall keep . Philofophers have endeavoured to render happiness entirely independent of every thing external . That degree of perfection is impoffible to be attained : But every wife man will endeavour to place his happiness on such ...
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... shall form juster notions of life : Many things , which please or afflict others , will appear to us too frivolous to engage our attention : And we fhall lofe by degrees that fenfibility and delicacy of paffion , which is fo ...
... shall form juster notions of life : Many things , which please or afflict others , will appear to us too frivolous to engage our attention : And we fhall lofe by degrees that fenfibility and delicacy of paffion , which is fo ...
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... shall find , in the end , that we have no fecurity for our liberties or poffeffions , except the good - will of our rulers ; that is , we fhall have no fecurity at all . It is , therefore , a just political maxim , that every man must ...
... shall find , in the end , that we have no fecurity for our liberties or poffeffions , except the good - will of our rulers ; that is , we fhall have no fecurity at all . It is , therefore , a just political maxim , that every man must ...
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... shall ever be the better for them , except their fervants and tradesmen , who juftly regard their profits as the product of their own labour . But a man poffeffed of 100,000 l . a year , if he Has either any generofity , or any cunning ...
... shall ever be the better for them , except their fervants and tradesmen , who juftly regard their profits as the product of their own labour . But a man poffeffed of 100,000 l . a year , if he Has either any generofity , or any cunning ...
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... Shall we affert , that the ftrains of ancient eloquence are unfuitable to our age , and ought not to be imitated by modern orators ? Whatever reasons may be made use of to prove this , I am perfuaded they will be found , upon ...
... Shall we affert , that the ftrains of ancient eloquence are unfuitable to our age , and ought not to be imitated by modern orators ? Whatever reasons may be made use of to prove this , I am perfuaded they will be found , upon ...
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abfolute affigned againſt alfo almoſt alſo ancient arife arts ATHENS authority becauſe befides cafe caufes cauſes CICERO circumftances commerce common compariſon confent confequence confider confiderable conftitution courſe defire DEMOSTHENES DIODORUS SICULUS encreaſe eſtabliſhed eſteemed factions faid fame fays fecurity feems fenate fenfe fenfible fentiments fhall fhould fince firft firſt fituation flaves fociety fome foon fovereign fpecies fpirit ftate ftill fubject fuch fufficient fuperior fuppofed fupport fure GAUL greateſt GREECE happineſs hiftory himſelf houſe human impoffible induſtry inftance intereft itſelf labour laws leaft leaſt lefs liberty magiftrates mankind meaſure ment moft monarchy moſt muft muſt nation nature neceffary neceffity neighbouring never obferve oppofite orators paffion perfons philofophers pleaſe pleaſure PLUTARCH poffeffed POLYBIUS prefent preferve prince principles purpoſe raiſed reaſon reprefentatives requifite ROMAN ROME ſciences ſeems ſmall ſtate ſtill STRABO ſuch ſuppoſed taſte thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion univerfal uſe