An Essay on Public Happiness: Investigating the State of Human Nature, Under Each of Its Particular Appearances, Through the Several Periods of History, to the Present Times, 第 1 巻T. Cadell, 1774 |
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418 ページ - ... of the events of war, as they were of the events of the Circus ; with this difference only, that in thefe laft events, they feemed to feel themfelves more intereded. Even the emperors had, during a long time, accultomed them to this luxurious effeminacy.
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