Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen3A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... lives in diffipation and idleness , know as little of po- . litics as of economy . A gentleman hunts all his life in the country , or perhaps comes to Paris to ruin . himself with an opera - girl . Thofe who are ambi- tious to be of the ...
... lives in diffipation and idleness , know as little of po- . litics as of economy . A gentleman hunts all his life in the country , or perhaps comes to Paris to ruin . himself with an opera - girl . Thofe who are ambi- tious to be of the ...
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... live there . A man of fortune , who has no taste but for a city life , happens to be forc'd into the country if it be not in caballing and intrigue . The French nobleffe have courage , but without any genius for war , the fatigue of a ...
... live there . A man of fortune , who has no taste but for a city life , happens to be forc'd into the country if it be not in caballing and intrigue . The French nobleffe have courage , but without any genius for war , the fatigue of a ...
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... live always in public , are not a little fatiguing and oppreffive . Man is na- turally moderate in his defire of enjoy- ment ; and it requires much practice to make him bear excefs without fatiety and disgust . The pain of excess ...
... live always in public , are not a little fatiguing and oppreffive . Man is na- turally moderate in his defire of enjoy- ment ; and it requires much practice to make him bear excefs without fatiety and disgust . The pain of excess ...
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... live by bodily labour , is to fave a pittance for their children , and for fupporting them- felves in old age : ftimulated by defire of accomplishing thefe ends , they are frugal and industrious ; and the profpect of fuc- cefs is to ...
... live by bodily labour , is to fave a pittance for their children , and for fupporting them- felves in old age : ftimulated by defire of accomplishing thefe ends , they are frugal and industrious ; and the profpect of fuc- cefs is to ...
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... child " muft die . " It is computed , that of the children in the London foundling - hofpital , the half do not live a year . It appears by an an account given in to parliament , that the money 92 B. II . CIVIL SOCIETY .
... child " muft die . " It is computed , that of the children in the London foundling - hofpital , the half do not live a year . It appears by an an account given in to parliament , that the money 92 B. II . CIVIL SOCIETY .
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