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... gives him food : and if a stran- ger came within reach , would bury his fangs and muzzle in the flesh of his victim : he stands an emblem of cruelty and despair . In like manner is man born innocent and sinless ; he comes into the world ...
... gives him food : and if a stran- ger came within reach , would bury his fangs and muzzle in the flesh of his victim : he stands an emblem of cruelty and despair . In like manner is man born innocent and sinless ; he comes into the world ...
Page 38
... give symmetry and durability to the whole ; because its inha- bitants have departed from the original sim- plicity of their common nature , and are acting in violation of her immutable laws : where are Nineveh and Babylon , Thebes and ...
... give symmetry and durability to the whole ; because its inha- bitants have departed from the original sim- plicity of their common nature , and are acting in violation of her immutable laws : where are Nineveh and Babylon , Thebes and ...
Page 47
... give implicit credence , or reject it in part or al- together , according to its total or partial agreement with such analogous cases . Such analogy constitutes a presumptive , collateral , and corroborative mass of proof , in aid and ...
... give implicit credence , or reject it in part or al- together , according to its total or partial agreement with such analogous cases . Such analogy constitutes a presumptive , collateral , and corroborative mass of proof , in aid and ...
Page 49
... give credit to an assertion , " that I held the stick with my right , and touched you with my left hand ? " The answer is obvious : " certainly you could not . " And yet , if will and belief were proper- ties dependent and inseparable ...
... give credit to an assertion , " that I held the stick with my right , and touched you with my left hand ? " The answer is obvious : " certainly you could not . " And yet , if will and belief were proper- ties dependent and inseparable ...
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... give specific ap- pellations by common consent , and agree to express feelings and ideas in terms arbitrary , but common to their own society . And thus would appear to have been formed the different languages of man , and their several ...
... give specific ap- pellations by common consent , and agree to express feelings and ideas in terms arbitrary , but common to their own society . And thus would appear to have been formed the different languages of man , and their several ...
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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...