The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Том 1John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... moral , and political system . But this theory , rather ab- struse , is difficult to be explained , and will be best eluci- ' dated by examples , which every day fall within our obser- vation . In the material world , for instance , we ...
... moral , and political system . But this theory , rather ab- struse , is difficult to be explained , and will be best eluci- ' dated by examples , which every day fall within our obser- vation . In the material world , for instance , we ...
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... moral , are the vices 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 ...
... moral , are the vices 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 ...
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... moral condition . Drugs and laws are rendered necessary , in forty - nine cases out of fifty , not by nature but by educa- tion : by false or neglected education ; by a neglect to train the body and the mind , as , under favourable ...
... moral condition . Drugs and laws are rendered necessary , in forty - nine cases out of fifty , not by nature but by educa- tion : by false or neglected education ; by a neglect to train the body and the mind , as , under favourable ...
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... moral faculties depended , in this rank of life more than any other , upon a morbid state of the intellectual - letters , it has been said , may be an in- strument of fraud ; so may bread , if discharged from the mouth of a cannon , be ...
... moral faculties depended , in this rank of life more than any other , upon a morbid state of the intellectual - letters , it has been said , may be an in- strument of fraud ; so may bread , if discharged from the mouth of a cannon , be ...
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... distinguish truth from falsehood , right from wrong ; and , therefore , if we discard this guide , we must grope in the dark without any guide at all . - Tucker's Light of Nature . XL . Moral Effects of the Fine Arts . - 18 SELECT PASSAGES.
... distinguish truth from falsehood , right from wrong ; and , therefore , if we discard this guide , we must grope in the dark without any guide at all . - Tucker's Light of Nature . XL . Moral Effects of the Fine Arts . - 18 SELECT PASSAGES.
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