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Page 137
... reason it is ab- solutely necessary that all liberality should have for its basis and support , frugality . By this means the beneficent spirit works in a man from the convictions of reason , not from the impulses of passion . The ge ...
... reason it is ab- solutely necessary that all liberality should have for its basis and support , frugality . By this means the beneficent spirit works in a man from the convictions of reason , not from the impulses of passion . The ge ...
Page 306
... reason ; with which , however , Mr. Cowley is so offended , that , writing to one of his friends , ' You , ' says he , tell me , that you do not know whether Persius be a good poet or no , because you cannot understand him ; for which ...
... reason ; with which , however , Mr. Cowley is so offended , that , writing to one of his friends , ' You , ' says he , tell me , that you do not know whether Persius be a good poet or no , because you cannot understand him ; for which ...
Page 351
... reasons : either that the idea of a God is innate and coexistent with the mind itself ; or , that this truth is so very obvious , that it is discovered by the first exertion of reason in persons of the most ordi- nary capacities ; or ...
... reasons : either that the idea of a God is innate and coexistent with the mind itself ; or , that this truth is so very obvious , that it is discovered by the first exertion of reason in persons of the most ordi- nary capacities ; or ...
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