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... pain by it's increafe . What is new is oppofed , becaufe moft are unwilling to be taught ; and what is known is re- jected , because it is not fufficiently con- fidered , that men more frequently re- quire to be reminded than informed ...
... pain by it's increafe . What is new is oppofed , becaufe moft are unwilling to be taught ; and what is known is re- jected , because it is not fufficiently con- fidered , that men more frequently re- quire to be reminded than informed ...
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... pain . Some have advanced , without due at- tention to the confequences of this no- tion , that certain virtues have their cor- refpondent faults ; and , therefore , that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability . Thus men ...
... pain . Some have advanced , without due at- tention to the confequences of this no- tion , that certain virtues have their cor- refpondent faults ; and , therefore , that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability . Thus men ...
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... pain and pleature from the re- gard or attention of a wife man . Such fapientia infaniens , as Horace calls the doctrine of another fect , fuch extravagance of philofophy , can want neither authority nor argument for it's confutation ...
... pain and pleature from the re- gard or attention of a wife man . Such fapientia infaniens , as Horace calls the doctrine of another fect , fuch extravagance of philofophy , can want neither authority nor argument for it's confutation ...
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... pain to fancy that he could bear it better in any other part . Cowley having known the trou- bles and perplexities of a particular con- dition , readily perfuaded himself that no- · thing worse was to be found , and that every ...
... pain to fancy that he could bear it better in any other part . Cowley having known the trou- bles and perplexities of a particular con- dition , readily perfuaded himself that no- · thing worse was to be found , and that every ...
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... pain or pleasure has a tendency to obftruct the way that leads to happiness , and either to turn us afide , or retard our progrefs . Our fenfes , our appetites , and our paffions , are our lawful and faithful guides in most things that ...
... pain or pleasure has a tendency to obftruct the way that leads to happiness , and either to turn us afide , or retard our progrefs . Our fenfes , our appetites , and our paffions , are our lawful and faithful guides in most things that ...
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