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... thofe only who arc more miferable . Now the reafon why he conceives the human heart cannot fympathife ( or as the original has it , Je mettre à la place ) with perfons in a happier fituation , is , that it is prevented by envy . " We ...
... thofe only who arc more miferable . Now the reafon why he conceives the human heart cannot fympathife ( or as the original has it , Je mettre à la place ) with perfons in a happier fituation , is , that it is prevented by envy . " We ...
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... thofe who are more happy than our- felves ; [ des gens qui font plus heureux que nous . ] Is the hap- pinefs [ du bonheur ] of the meaner fort , by which we are faid to be affected , supposed to be greater or less than our own ? If ...
... thofe who are more happy than our- felves ; [ des gens qui font plus heureux que nous . ] Is the hap- pinefs [ du bonheur ] of the meaner fort , by which we are faid to be affected , supposed to be greater or less than our own ? If ...
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... thofe people often the objects of our compaflion , who account themfelves much happier than we ? Nay , do we not fome- times even pity them for thinking fo ; and for being of fuch a difpofition , as to reap a fatisfaction from ...
... thofe people often the objects of our compaflion , who account themfelves much happier than we ? Nay , do we not fome- times even pity them for thinking fo ; and for being of fuch a difpofition , as to reap a fatisfaction from ...
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... thofe fpirits which give life to the blood , and ftrength to the fibres , are yet unprepared and imper- fect . If they be carried into a different channel , and that which was intended to compleat an individual , be employed in the ...
... thofe fpirits which give life to the blood , and ftrength to the fibres , are yet unprepared and imper- fect . If they be carried into a different channel , and that which was intended to compleat an individual , be employed in the ...
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... thofe nations which verge towards deftruction ; but of those which have been flourishing , we have no hiftory at all : they have been fo wife and fo happy , as to furnish no events worth recording . Even in our own times ,, we fee that ...
... thofe nations which verge towards deftruction ; but of those which have been flourishing , we have no hiftory at all : they have been fo wife and fo happy , as to furnish no events worth recording . Even in our own times ,, we fee that ...
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