The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion. With Literary Amusements Interspersed |
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His chance , therefore , of security is the chance that the greater number of
objects occurring to attract his honourable passions may be worthy of them . But
we have seen that the whole power of circumstances is collected to gather round
him ...
His chance , therefore , of security is the chance that the greater number of
objects occurring to attract his honourable passions may be worthy of them . But
we have seen that the whole power of circumstances is collected to gather round
him ...
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... frequent reference had not been made by our historians to the books ,
pamphlets , and flying sheets of that momentous period , during which all the
possible forms of truth and error ( the latter being themselves for the greater 54
THE FRIEND .
... frequent reference had not been made by our historians to the books ,
pamphlets , and flying sheets of that momentous period , during which all the
possible forms of truth and error ( the latter being themselves for the greater 54
THE FRIEND .
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and error ( the latter being themselves for the greater part caricatures of truth )
bubbled up on the surface of the public mind , as in the ferment of a chaos . It
would be difficult to conceive a notion or a fancy , in politics , ethics , theology , or
even ...
and error ( the latter being themselves for the greater part caricatures of truth )
bubbled up on the surface of the public mind , as in the ferment of a chaos . It
would be difficult to conceive a notion or a fancy , in politics , ethics , theology , or
even ...
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For all things by force compelled from their nature will fly back with the greater
earnestness on the removal of that force ; and this , in the present case , must
soon weary itself out , and hath no less an enemy in its own satiety than in the ...
For all things by force compelled from their nature will fly back with the greater
earnestness on the removal of that force ; and this , in the present case , must
soon weary itself out , and hath no less an enemy in its own satiety than in the ...
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Nor can I think of any investigation , that would be more instructive where it would
be safe , but none likewise of greater delicacy from the probability of
misinterpretation , than a history of the rise of honor in the European monarchies
as ...
Nor can I think of any investigation , that would be more instructive where it would
be safe , but none likewise of greater delicacy from the probability of
misinterpretation , than a history of the rise of honor in the European monarchies
as ...
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121 ページ - I will be brief: your noble son is mad: Mad call I it ; for, to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad ? But let that go.
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