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Page 37
... suffer for the crimes of men who have formerly been found unde- serving or ungrateful . Historians are certainly chargeable with the de- pravation of mankind , when they relate , without cen- sure , those stratagems of war by which the ...
... suffer for the crimes of men who have formerly been found unde- serving or ungrateful . Historians are certainly chargeable with the de- pravation of mankind , when they relate , without cen- sure , those stratagems of war by which the ...
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... suffer or want , by considering how we should be affected in the same state ; nor can we propor- tion our assistance by any other rule than that of doing what we should then expect from others . It , indeed , generally happens that the ...
... suffer or want , by considering how we should be affected in the same state ; nor can we propor- tion our assistance by any other rule than that of doing what we should then expect from others . It , indeed , generally happens that the ...
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... suffer only their real malignity without the conflicts of doubt and anguish of anticipation . To act is far easier than to suffer ; yet we every day see the progress of life retarded by the vis iner- tice , the mere repugnance to motion ...
... suffer only their real malignity without the conflicts of doubt and anguish of anticipation . To act is far easier than to suffer ; yet we every day see the progress of life retarded by the vis iner- tice , the mere repugnance to motion ...
Contents
Peevishness equally wretched and offensivethe Character of Tetrica | 74 |
The World never known but by a Change of Fortune the History of Melissa | 75 |
The Arts by which bad Men are reconciled to them selves | 76 |
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