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... proper application; to many other causes besides a defect in the principles we employ. In reality, the subject requires a much closer attention than we dare claim from our manner of treating it. If it should not appear on the face of ...
... proper application; to many other causes besides a defect in the principles we employ. In reality, the subject requires a much closer attention than we dare claim from our manner of treating it. If it should not appear on the face of ...
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... proper species, and become in some sort monstrous: however, no species is so strictly confined to any certain proportions, that there is not a considerable variation amongst the individuals; and as it has been shown of the human, may be ...
... proper species, and become in some sort monstrous: however, no species is so strictly confined to any certain proportions, that there is not a considerable variation amongst the individuals; and as it has been shown of the human, may be ...
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... proper sphere of their power; and here it is that they have their full effect. Whenever the wisdom of our Creator intended that we should be affected with anything, he did not confide the execution of his design to the languid and ...
... proper sphere of their power; and here it is that they have their full effect. Whenever the wisdom of our Creator intended that we should be affected with anything, he did not confide the execution of his design to the languid and ...
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... proper order, they must be shaken and worked to a proper degree. SECTION VII. EXERCISE NECESSARY FOR THE FINER ORGANS. As common labor, which is a mode of pain, is the exercise of the grosser, a mode of terror is the exercise of the ...
... proper order, they must be shaken and worked to a proper degree. SECTION VII. EXERCISE NECESSARY FOR THE FINER ORGANS. As common labor, which is a mode of pain, is the exercise of the grosser, a mode of terror is the exercise of the ...
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... proper time to produce a very great and lasting effect. The view of a bare wall, if it be of a great height and length, is undoubtedly grand; but this is only one idea, and not a repetition of similar ideas: it is therefore great, not ...
... proper time to produce a very great and lasting effect. The view of a bare wall, if it be of a great height and length, is undoubtedly grand; but this is only one idea, and not a repetition of similar ideas: it is therefore great, not ...
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