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... principle until we had previously unravelled the complex texture of every image or description to be found in poets and orators. And though we should never be able to reconcile the effect of such images to our principles, this can never ...
... principle until we had previously unravelled the complex texture of every image or description to be found in poets and orators. And though we should never be able to reconcile the effect of such images to our principles, this can never ...
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... principle, the wedge-like snout of a swine, with its tough cartilage at the end, the little sunk eyes, and the whole make of the head, so well adapted to its offices of digging and rooting, would be extremely beautiful. The great bag ...
... principle, the wedge-like snout of a swine, with its tough cartilage at the end, the little sunk eyes, and the whole make of the head, so well adapted to its offices of digging and rooting, would be extremely beautiful. The great bag ...
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... principles ridiculous, and to old regards impracticable, not being able to counterfeit pleasure, or to discharge ... principle in morality, is trite; but its frequent application is not the less necessary. As to others, who are plain ...
... principles ridiculous, and to old regards impracticable, not being able to counterfeit pleasure, or to discharge ... principle in morality, is trite; but its frequent application is not the less necessary. As to others, who are plain ...
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... principle, it is a very inviting object of curiosity. It must be remembered, that since the revolution, until the period we are speaking of, the influence of the crown had been always employed in supporting the ministers of state, and ...
... principle, it is a very inviting object of curiosity. It must be remembered, that since the revolution, until the period we are speaking of, the influence of the crown had been always employed in supporting the ministers of state, and ...
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... principle which might substitute a Titius or a Maevius, a John Doe or Richard Roe, in the place of a man specially chosen; not a principle which was just as well satisfied with one man as with another. It is a right, the effect of which ...
... principle which might substitute a Titius or a Maevius, a John Doe or Richard Roe, in the place of a man specially chosen; not a principle which was just as well satisfied with one man as with another. It is a right, the effect of which ...
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