Addresses to Young Men: By James Fordyce, D.D. ...T. Cadell, 1777 - Ethics |
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... reasons , and others that need not now be stated , the improvement of the rifing age in the best things , has always appeared to me an object of the first mag- nitude . On this principle Sermons to Young Women were attempted . From the ...
... reasons , and others that need not now be stated , the improvement of the rifing age in the best things , has always appeared to me an object of the first mag- nitude . On this principle Sermons to Young Women were attempted . From the ...
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... reasons apparently good , but which from its nature was unavoid- ably less interefting or he might make the attempt at a period of life , when affi- duity was relaxed , and ardour abated . By reflections of this fort I was re- ftrained ...
... reasons apparently good , but which from its nature was unavoid- ably less interefting or he might make the attempt at a period of life , when affi- duity was relaxed , and ardour abated . By reflections of this fort I was re- ftrained ...
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... reason to look upon himself as no better than a hireling counsellor , or hackneyed pleader , who speaks not the lan- guage of truth and juftice , but ftudies to ferve his client at the expence of both . The client , in this cafe , is ...
... reason to look upon himself as no better than a hireling counsellor , or hackneyed pleader , who speaks not the lan- guage of truth and juftice , but ftudies to ferve his client at the expence of both . The client , in this cafe , is ...
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... reason is misled , or confcience ill informed , from the begin- ning , deplorable errors may be embraced for truths , and horrible crimes committed under the name of Virtues . But to adopt the words of a forcible writer ; " Caft 66 ...
... reason is misled , or confcience ill informed , from the begin- ning , deplorable errors may be embraced for truths , and horrible crimes committed under the name of Virtues . But to adopt the words of a forcible writer ; " Caft 66 ...
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... reason , from himself ? The fyftem of Modern Honour is at hand , to receive , to re - affure , and foothe him ; that boafted contrivance of defpe- rate libertines , that notable system , which by boldly affuming the title of Virtue ...
... reason , from himself ? The fyftem of Modern Honour is at hand , to receive , to re - affure , and foothe him ; that boafted contrivance of defpe- rate libertines , that notable system , which by boldly affuming the title of Virtue ...
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