Sketches of the History of Man: In Two Volumes, Volumen2 |
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... as valuable above all other labourers , not only for regularity , but for activity . And with refpect to fervice in war , conftant exercife is the life of an army , in the literal as well as metaphorical fenfe .
... as valuable above all other labourers , not only for regularity , but for activity . And with refpect to fervice in war , conftant exercife is the life of an army , in the literal as well as metaphorical fenfe .
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Our youth go abroad to fee the world in the literal fenfe ; for to pierce deeper than eye - fight , cannot be expected of boys . They refort to gay courts , where they find nothing for imitation but pomp , luxury , dissembled virtues ...
Our youth go abroad to fee the world in the literal fenfe ; for to pierce deeper than eye - fight , cannot be expected of boys . They refort to gay courts , where they find nothing for imitation but pomp , luxury , dissembled virtues ...
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Might it not have been foreseen , that to a groveling creature , who has no fenfe of honour , and scarce any of fhame , the certainty of maintenance would prove an irresistible temptation to idleness and debauchery ?
Might it not have been foreseen , that to a groveling creature , who has no fenfe of honour , and scarce any of fhame , the certainty of maintenance would prove an irresistible temptation to idleness and debauchery ?
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... and if happily the ftudy of theology lead us to a conviction that there really is fuch a being ; the conviction will be a fource of conftant enjoyment , which I boldly fet above the titillating pleafures of external fenfe .
... and if happily the ftudy of theology lead us to a conviction that there really is fuch a being ; the conviction will be a fource of conftant enjoyment , which I boldly fet above the titillating pleafures of external fenfe .
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Our knowledge of right and wrong in actions , is derived from the moral fenfe , to be handled in the sketch immediately following . Our knowledge of truth and error is derived from various fources . Our external fenfes are one fource of ...
Our knowledge of right and wrong in actions , is derived from the moral fenfe , to be handled in the sketch immediately following . Our knowledge of truth and error is derived from various fources . Our external fenfes are one fource of ...
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