The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Том 1John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it , may be truly said to advance the literature of his own age . ” The same admirable writer supplies the best excuse , if any excuse be needed , for thus collecting and re ...
... mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it , may be truly said to advance the literature of his own age . ” The same admirable writer supplies the best excuse , if any excuse be needed , for thus collecting and re ...
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... mankind , powers and propensities of a similar nature , which operate in a similar manner throughout every part of the material , moral , and political system . But this theory , rather ab- struse , is difficult to be explained , and ...
... mankind , powers and propensities of a similar nature , which operate in a similar manner throughout every part of the material , moral , and political system . But this theory , rather ab- struse , is difficult to be explained , and ...
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... mankind prevented from being totally subversive of society , by their continually counteracting each other : profusion restores to the public the wealth which avarice has detained from it for a time ; envy clips the towering wings of ...
... mankind prevented from being totally subversive of society , by their continually counteracting each other : profusion restores to the public the wealth which avarice has detained from it for a time ; envy clips the towering wings of ...
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... the former , " Serve mankind , and you serve yourself ; " to the latter , " In choosing the best means to secure your own happiness , you will 2 * FROM THE BEST AUTHORS . 13 ladies in England had, till within these very few ...
... the former , " Serve mankind , and you serve yourself ; " to the latter , " In choosing the best means to secure your own happiness , you will 2 * FROM THE BEST AUTHORS . 13 ladies in England had, till within these very few ...
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... mankind . " The second excellence of knowledge is , that even the selfish man , when he has once begun to love virtue from little motives , loses the motive as he increases the love , and at last worships the Deity , where before he ...
... mankind . " The second excellence of knowledge is , that even the selfish man , when he has once begun to love virtue from little motives , loses the motive as he increases the love , and at last worships the Deity , where before he ...
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