Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 3M. Newman, 1822 - Philosophy |
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... beautiful adaptation of our nature to the scene on which we have to discharge the various duties of men , that is ef- fected by this principle of our constitution , -a principle , which renders the scene of those duties itself ...
... beautiful adaptation of our nature to the scene on which we have to discharge the various duties of men , that is ef- fected by this principle of our constitution , -a principle , which renders the scene of those duties itself ...
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... beautiful line , which expresses much in a very few words , - " Pleasure is nought but Virtue's gayer name . " * Even of pleasures , which do not flow immediately from virtue , but of which virtue is far from forbidding the enjoyment ...
... beautiful line , which expresses much in a very few words , - " Pleasure is nought but Virtue's gayer name . " * Even of pleasures , which do not flow immediately from virtue , but of which virtue is far from forbidding the enjoyment ...
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... beautiful , of a single wildflower , which at the opening of spring , seems to an- nounce the continued care of that God , who is again , as in form- er years , to cover the earth with all the profusion of his bounty , -gives to them a ...
... beautiful , of a single wildflower , which at the opening of spring , seems to an- nounce the continued care of that God , who is again , as in form- er years , to cover the earth with all the profusion of his bounty , -gives to them a ...
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... beautiful , and may delight us , therefore , in every stage of our journey , the very exercise itself may be pleasing . Without the journey , it is evident , that we could not have enjoyed this beauty of the scene , and this pleasure of ...
... beautiful , and may delight us , therefore , in every stage of our journey , the very exercise itself may be pleasing . Without the journey , it is evident , that we could not have enjoyed this beauty of the scene , and this pleasure of ...
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... beautiful . Of the lively curiosity of which I speak , with relation to the tales of our nursery , you must all have some remembrance ; and , indeed , it is a curiosity which , even with respect to such tales of fiction , does not cease ...
... beautiful . Of the lively curiosity of which I speak , with relation to the tales of our nursery , you must all have some remembrance ; and , indeed , it is a curiosity which , even with respect to such tales of fiction , does not cease ...
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