The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, Volume 10Little, Brown, 1864 - English essays |
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... reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one . Atticus , one of the best men of ancient Rome , was a very remarkable instance of what I am here speak- ing . This extraordinary person , amidst the civil wars 12 NO . 385 ...
... reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one . Atticus , one of the best men of ancient Rome , was a very remarkable instance of what I am here speak- ing . This extraordinary person , amidst the civil wars 12 NO . 385 ...
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... reason it is a most calamitous circumstance , that many people who want to be alone , or should be so , will come into conversation . It is certain that all men , who are the least given to reflection , are seized with an inclination ...
... reason it is a most calamitous circumstance , that many people who want to be alone , or should be so , will come into conversation . It is certain that all men , who are the least given to reflection , are seized with an inclination ...
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... reason , in the following words : — " Beyond all this , we may find another reason why God hath scattered up and down several degrees of pleasure and pain , in all the things that environ and affect us , and blended them together , in ...
... reason , in the following words : — " Beyond all this , we may find another reason why God hath scattered up and down several degrees of pleasure and pain , in all the things that environ and affect us , and blended them together , in ...
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... reason or argument , and but a very small share of wit , has , however , recommended itself , wholly by its impiety , to those weak men who would distinguish themselves by the singularity of their opinions . There are two considerations ...
... reason or argument , and but a very small share of wit , has , however , recommended itself , wholly by its impiety , to those weak men who would distinguish themselves by the singularity of their opinions . There are two considerations ...
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... 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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