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... free agency , see and judge for yourself : all I can do , will be to assist you 12 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... free agency , see and judge for yourself : all I can do , will be to assist you 12 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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... free agent , created in possession of certain powers derived from a source superior to him- self : the unseen , unknown agency , which gave him being , has as it were , said ' work of my will , I have given you existence for my good ...
... free agent , created in possession of certain powers derived from a source superior to him- self : the unseen , unknown agency , which gave him being , has as it were , said ' work of my will , I have given you existence for my good ...
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... free agency ; a being to be produced by a law im- planted and descendible ; not endowed at once with perfection of intelligence , but capable of progressive improvement , by due application of those dictates , and incentive powers of ...
... free agency ; a being to be produced by a law im- planted and descendible ; not endowed at once with perfection of intelligence , but capable of progressive improvement , by due application of those dictates , and incentive powers of ...
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... free agency , the distinguishing characte- ristic between you and inferiority , it must be so : you then only suffer the punishment due to delinquency ; accuse not me . How can you dare to demand a special interference from the power ...
... free agency , the distinguishing characte- ristic between you and inferiority , it must be so : you then only suffer the punishment due to delinquency ; accuse not me . How can you dare to demand a special interference from the power ...
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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...