The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Том 2John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... idea that they were acting right . So it is with reason . What made Medea kill her children ? What made Cato kill himself ? What made the Pagans offer human sacrifices to idols ? What made Epicurus deny a Providence ? What has made some ...
... idea that they were acting right . So it is with reason . What made Medea kill her children ? What made Cato kill himself ? What made the Pagans offer human sacrifices to idols ? What made Epicurus deny a Providence ? What has made some ...
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... ideas . This is but too true ; and this is one of the reasons for which I blame such institutions . In a misery of this sort , admitting some few lenities , and those , too , but a few , nine parts in ten of the whole race of mankind ...
... ideas . This is but too true ; and this is one of the reasons for which I blame such institutions . In a misery of this sort , admitting some few lenities , and those , too , but a few , nine parts in ten of the whole race of mankind ...
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... ideas are the mo- tives of the greatest part of mankind , and a heated imagi nation , the power by which their actions are incited ; the world , in the eye of a philosopher , may be said to be a large madhouse .-- Mackenzie . DLXXII ...
... ideas are the mo- tives of the greatest part of mankind , and a heated imagi nation , the power by which their actions are incited ; the world , in the eye of a philosopher , may be said to be a large madhouse .-- Mackenzie . DLXXII ...
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... ideas and sensations which render it indisposed to receive others , especially of a heteroge- neous nature . In consequence , we seldom see any consi- derable change in a person's temper and habits after he is grown to man's estate ...
... ideas and sensations which render it indisposed to receive others , especially of a heteroge- neous nature . In consequence , we seldom see any consi- derable change in a person's temper and habits after he is grown to man's estate ...
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... Idea of a Patriot King . DCII . Belief . — I am not afraid of those tender and scrupulous consciences , who are ever cautious of professing and be- lieving too much ; if they are sincerely in the wrong , I forgive their errors , and ...
... Idea of a Patriot King . DCII . Belief . — I am not afraid of those tender and scrupulous consciences , who are ever cautious of professing and be- lieving too much ; if they are sincerely in the wrong , I forgive their errors , and ...
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