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... kind . I have heard how fome have been pacified with claret and a fupper , and others laid afleep with the foft notes of flattery . Though the nature of my undertaking gives me fufficient reafon to dread the united attacks of this ...
... kind . I have heard how fome have been pacified with claret and a fupper , and others laid afleep with the foft notes of flattery . Though the nature of my undertaking gives me fufficient reafon to dread the united attacks of this ...
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... kind , though not the faine degree of caution , is required in every thing which is laid before them , to fecure them from unjust prejudices , perverfe opinions , and in- congruous combinations of images . In the romances formerly ...
... kind , though not the faine degree of caution , is required in every thing which is laid before them , to fecure them from unjust prejudices , perverfe opinions , and in- congruous combinations of images . In the romances formerly ...
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... kind , fup- pofes man to act from a brute impulie , and purfue a certain degree of inclina- tion , without any choice of the object ; for , otherwife , though it fhould be al- lowed that gratitude and refentment arife from the fame ...
... kind , fup- pofes man to act from a brute impulie , and purfue a certain degree of inclina- tion , without any choice of the object ; for , otherwife , though it fhould be al- lowed that gratitude and refentment arife from the fame ...
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... kind . Thefe reflections arofe in my mind upon the remembrance of a paffage in Cowley's preface to his poems ; where , however exalted by genius , and enlarged by ftudy , he informs us of a scheme of happiness to which the imagination ...
... kind . Thefe reflections arofe in my mind upon the remembrance of a paffage in Cowley's preface to his poems ; where , however exalted by genius , and enlarged by ftudy , he informs us of a scheme of happiness to which the imagination ...
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... kind of prescription in their favour . We feared pain much earlier than we apprehended guilt , and were delighted with the fen- fations of pleasure before we had capa- cities to be charmed with the beauty of rectitude . To this power ...
... kind of prescription in their favour . We feared pain much earlier than we apprehended guilt , and were delighted with the fen- fations of pleasure before we had capa- cities to be charmed with the beauty of rectitude . To this power ...
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