Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen3A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... fome progress , not excepting those for amusement ; and many conveniencies , formerly unknown , became neceffary to comfortable living . A man accustomed to manifold conveniencies , cannot bear with patience to be deprived of them ; he ...
... fome progress , not excepting those for amusement ; and many conveniencies , formerly unknown , became neceffary to comfortable living . A man accustomed to manifold conveniencies , cannot bear with patience to be deprived of them ; he ...
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... fome horses wounded , not a man flain . He obferves , that fuch cowardice and diforder was in the armies of those times , that the turn- ing of a fingle horfe either to charge or retreat , would have decided a battle . Charles Charles ...
... fome horses wounded , not a man flain . He obferves , that fuch cowardice and diforder was in the armies of those times , that the turn- ing of a fingle horfe either to charge or retreat , would have decided a battle . Charles Charles ...
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... fome warlike neighbour , impelled by hunger , or by ambition , to extend his dominions ? The difficulty of providing for defence , confift- ent with industry , has produced a general opinion among political writers , that a nation , to ...
... fome warlike neighbour , impelled by hunger , or by ambition , to extend his dominions ? The difficulty of providing for defence , confift- ent with industry , has produced a general opinion among political writers , that a nation , to ...
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... fome inherent vice in the nature of government , that counteracts every ef- fort of genius to produce a more perfect mode . I am not difpofed to admit any fuch defect , especially in an article effential to the well - being of fociety ...
... fome inherent vice in the nature of government , that counteracts every ef- fort of genius to produce a more perfect mode . I am not difpofed to admit any fuch defect , especially in an article effential to the well - being of fociety ...
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... fome ; and more difagreeable ftill than troublesome , by the neceffity of ufing de- ceitful arts for trepanning the unwary youth . Nor are fuch arts always fucceff- ful in our late war with France , we were neceffitated to give up even ...
... fome ; and more difagreeable ftill than troublesome , by the neceffity of ufing de- ceitful arts for trepanning the unwary youth . Nor are fuch arts always fucceff- ful in our late war with France , we were neceffitated to give up even ...
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