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... advantage in point of polish. Here is indeed the great difference between tastes, when men come to compare the excess or diminution of things which are judged by degree and not by measure. Nor is it easy, when such a difference arises ...
... advantage in point of polish. Here is indeed the great difference between tastes, when men come to compare the excess or diminution of things which are judged by degree and not by measure. Nor is it easy, when such a difference arises ...
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... advantage in a new idea of pleasure resulting from a moderate degree of warmth; but the eye triumphs in the infinite extent and multiplicity of its objects. But there is such a similitude in the pleasures of these senses, that I am apt ...
... advantage in a new idea of pleasure resulting from a moderate degree of warmth; but the eye triumphs in the infinite extent and multiplicity of its objects. But there is such a similitude in the pleasures of these senses, that I am apt ...
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... advantages. But it is remarkable, throughout his whole book, that those circumstances which have ever been considered as great ... advantage, or even sometimes as positive misfortunes. The optics of that politician must be of a strange ...
... advantages. But it is remarkable, throughout his whole book, that those circumstances which have ever been considered as great ... advantage, or even sometimes as positive misfortunes. The optics of that politician must be of a strange ...
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... advantages of the war were to be depreciated, then the loss of the ultramarine colonies lightened the expenses of ... advantage in the negotiation for peace; and yet the chance of possessing them on a future occasion gives a perfect ...
... advantages of the war were to be depreciated, then the loss of the ultramarine colonies lightened the expenses of ... advantage in the negotiation for peace; and yet the chance of possessing them on a future occasion gives a perfect ...
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... advantage the peace gave us towards the invasion of these colonies, which we did not possess before the peace. It would not have been amiss if he had consulted the public experience, and our commanders, concerning the absolute certainty ...
... advantage the peace gave us towards the invasion of these colonies, which we did not possess before the peace. It would not have been amiss if he had consulted the public experience, and our commanders, concerning the absolute certainty ...
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