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... fhall under any circum- stances repent . Many temperaments and 66 66 66 66 explanations there would have been , if I had ever had a notion that it fhould meet the publick eye . " In the mean time a large impreffion , amount- ing , it is ...
... fhall under any circum- stances repent . Many temperaments and 66 66 66 66 explanations there would have been , if I had ever had a notion that it fhould meet the publick eye . " In the mean time a large impreffion , amount- ing , it is ...
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... fhall call natural fociety . Thus far nature went and fucceeded ; but man would go farther . The great errour of our nature is , not to know where to ftop , not to be satisfied with any reafon- able acquirement ; not to compound with ...
... fhall call natural fociety . Thus far nature went and fucceeded ; but man would go farther . The great errour of our nature is , not to know where to ftop , not to be satisfied with any reafon- able acquirement ; not to compound with ...
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... fhall perpe- tually relapfe , whilst the real productive cause of all this fuperftitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are other wife enlight- ened ...
... fhall perpe- tually relapfe , whilst the real productive cause of all this fuperftitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are other wife enlight- ened ...
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... fhall eftimate the flaughters in this ifland but at two millions ; which your Lordship will find much short of the reality . Let us pafs by the wars , and the confequences of them , which wafted Grecia - Magna , before the Roman power ...
... fhall eftimate the flaughters in this ifland but at two millions ; which your Lordship will find much short of the reality . Let us pafs by the wars , and the confequences of them , which wafted Grecia - Magna , before the Roman power ...
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... fhall obferve little on the Servile , the Social , the Gallick , and Spanish wars ; nor upon those with Jugurtha , nor Antiochus , nor many others equally important , and carried on with equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæfar alone ...
... fhall obferve little on the Servile , the Social , the Gallick , and Spanish wars ; nor upon those with Jugurtha , nor Antiochus , nor many others equally important , and carried on with equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæfar alone ...
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