Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present DayJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1880 - 547 pages |
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... IDEA OF PLEASURE ; FROM BISHOP BURNET'S TRANSLATION OF MORE'S UTOPIA , Lond . , 1684 , 8vo . They think it is an evidence of true wis- dom for a man to pursue his own advantages as far as the laws allow it . They account it piety to ...
... IDEA OF PLEASURE ; FROM BISHOP BURNET'S TRANSLATION OF MORE'S UTOPIA , Lond . , 1684 , 8vo . They think it is an evidence of true wis- dom for a man to pursue his own advantages as far as the laws allow it . They account it piety to ...
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... idea of being all - you cannot have the true man against his powerful , and not to that of being all - good . inclinations . His majesty's wisdom . it is to be hoped , will save him from the snare that may lie under gross adulations ...
... idea of being all - you cannot have the true man against his powerful , and not to that of being all - good . inclinations . His majesty's wisdom . it is to be hoped , will save him from the snare that may lie under gross adulations ...
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... idea of himself . Out of five hundred folio pages , there are hardly , I conceive , half a dozen sentences expressed simply and directly , with the sincere desire to convey the image im- plied , and without a systematic interpolation of ...
... idea of himself . Out of five hundred folio pages , there are hardly , I conceive , half a dozen sentences expressed simply and directly , with the sincere desire to convey the image im- plied , and without a systematic interpolation of ...
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... idea or conception of anything whereof we have not a full and perfect comprehension , then can we not have an idea or conception of the nature of any substance . But though we do not comprehend all truth , as if one mind were above it ...
... idea or conception of anything whereof we have not a full and perfect comprehension , then can we not have an idea or conception of the nature of any substance . But though we do not comprehend all truth , as if one mind were above it ...
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... ideas , and of sagacity and exercise in finding out and laying in order intermediate ideas , there are three miscarriages that men are guilty of in reference to their reason , whereby this fac- ulty is hindered in them from that service ...
... ideas , and of sagacity and exercise in finding out and laying in order intermediate ideas , there are three miscarriages that men are guilty of in reference to their reason , whereby this fac- ulty is hindered in them from that service ...
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