English Prose of the Eighteenth CenturyCecil Albert Moore |
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Page 369
... opinion of the happiness of virtue without conceiving high thoughts of the satisfaction resulting from the gen- erous admiration and love of it ; and noth- ing beside the experience of such a love is likely to make this satisfaction ...
... opinion of the happiness of virtue without conceiving high thoughts of the satisfaction resulting from the gen- erous admiration and love of it ; and noth- ing beside the experience of such a love is likely to make this satisfaction ...
Page 633
... opinion of it , that is honest praise , to which one may trust . But if an author asks me if I like his book , and I give him something like praise , it must not be taken as my real opinion . " I have not been troubled for a long time ...
... opinion of it , that is honest praise , to which one may trust . But if an author asks me if I like his book , and I give him something like praise , it must not be taken as my real opinion . " I have not been troubled for a long time ...
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... opinion of those who are to be gov- erned . That general opinion is the vehi- cle and organ of legislative omnipotence . Without this , it may be a theory to en- tertain the mind , but it is nothing in the direction of affairs . The ...
... opinion of those who are to be gov- erned . That general opinion is the vehi- cle and organ of legislative omnipotence . Without this , it may be a theory to en- tertain the mind , but it is nothing in the direction of affairs . The ...
Contents
PREFACE | 4 |
THE POOR MANS PLEA | 14 |
THE SHORTEST WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS | 23 |
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