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... artificial : and , lastly , that being established on positions purely local and temporary , it now totters to its base before the mighty engines of knowledge , which batter it forlorn on all sides . Happy are they who escape crush and ...
... artificial : and , lastly , that being established on positions purely local and temporary , it now totters to its base before the mighty engines of knowledge , which batter it forlorn on all sides . Happy are they who escape crush and ...
Page 70
... artificial , the result , compared with the natural mode , is as nothing . The other formation of language , is by a series of sounds altogether new : thus , if only half a dozen individuals possessing due powers of hearing and ...
... artificial , the result , compared with the natural mode , is as nothing . The other formation of language , is by a series of sounds altogether new : thus , if only half a dozen individuals possessing due powers of hearing and ...
Page 79
... artificial treat- ment from the labour of man , were left to Nature for only a few centuries , abandoned to the impulse her hand would give , it would bloom in wildness , in all the luxuriance of wood and water - fall , marsh and plain ...
... artificial treat- ment from the labour of man , were left to Nature for only a few centuries , abandoned to the impulse her hand would give , it would bloom in wildness , in all the luxuriance of wood and water - fall , marsh and plain ...
Page 83
... artificial system of dealing was resorted to , which the earlier races had not conceived , because their system of action was only that of intuitive nature . Those who , from hereditary destitution , were dependent for subsistence on ...
... artificial system of dealing was resorted to , which the earlier races had not conceived , because their system of action was only that of intuitive nature . Those who , from hereditary destitution , were dependent for subsistence on ...
Page 86
... artificial wants , compound desires , and amusements , by ministering to which they might keep the heads and hands of their de- pendants in incessant toil , and consequent ab- straction from the reflection and knowledge which they well ...
... artificial wants , compound desires , and amusements , by ministering to which they might keep the heads and hands of their de- pendants in incessant toil , and consequent ab- straction from the reflection and knowledge which they well ...
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acquired action animal artificial assert Atheist become belief blood cause certainly chimney sweeper civil clothing common conscience consequence Deism Deist dreadful earth emotion endeavour enjoyment enquiry equality equipoise eternity evil existence eyes faculties fancy father fear feeling fool founded free agency fresh genus Gil Blas give hand happiness HARVARD COLLEGE hear heart Holborn human idea ignorance instance intellect knowledge labour laws ledge LETTER listen look luxuries marriage Maurepas mean ment mental middle men mind misery mode nation natural justice natural law Nature necessity never observe once pain Paradise Lost perhaps persons philanthropy pleasure possession present principles proof reason receive revelation sense slavery sort soul sounds speak species surface tell term thee Theocracy things thou thought tion true truth turn unnatural virtue Whigs
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Page 160 - The man who resolutely divesting himself of habit and prejudice, of the false impressions imbibed from early childhood, resolves to know Truth, if haply she may be found, is sure to be assailed, threatened, mimicked, and insulted, with abuse the most pitiful and inane, with derision the most paltry, stupid, and futile, wholly unworthy of the exaltation to which human attainmentboasts to have arrived. 'His honesty is decried as presumption, his avowal of naked truth as sedition; his exposure of existing...
Page 162 - Necker,'that reason suits neither you or me: Sully did not go to mass, and Sully was of the council.' ' Maurepas, in this answer, only caught at the ridicule of...