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... fhort , all who confider fuch things as philosophy , and require some of them at least , in every philofophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found the land- marks of science precifely in their former places : for ...
... fhort , all who confider fuch things as philosophy , and require some of them at least , in every philofophical work , all these were certainly disappointed ; they found the land- marks of science precifely in their former places : for ...
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... fhort , it were hardly poffible to conceive a more horrid and bloody picture , if that the Punick wars that enfued foon after did not pre- fent one , that far exceeds it . Here we find that climax of devaftation , and ruin , which ...
... fhort , it were hardly poffible to conceive a more horrid and bloody picture , if that the Punick wars that enfued foon after did not pre- fent one , that far exceeds it . Here we find that climax of devaftation , and ruin , which ...
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... from the fuckers that grew out of the old root ever fince . But if in this inconfiderable part of the globe , fuch a car- nage has been made in two or three fhort reigns , and and that this great carnage , great as it is 26 A VINDICATION ...
... from the fuckers that grew out of the old root ever fince . But if in this inconfiderable part of the globe , fuch a car- nage has been made in two or three fhort reigns , and and that this great carnage , great as it is 26 A VINDICATION ...
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... capri- cious as that of a woman ; and concluding his time to be fhort , he makes hafte to fill up the measure of his iniquity , in rapine , in luxury , and T 6 in revenge . Every avenue to the throne is fhut in 38 A VINDICATION OF.
... capri- cious as that of a woman ; and concluding his time to be fhort , he makes hafte to fill up the measure of his iniquity , in rapine , in luxury , and T 6 in revenge . Every avenue to the throne is fhut in 38 A VINDICATION OF.
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... fhort , the regular and methodical pro- ceedings of an aristocracy , are more intolerable than the very exceffes of a defpotifm , and in gene- ral , much further from any remedy . Thus , my Lord , we have pursued aristocracy through its ...
... fhort , the regular and methodical pro- ceedings of an aristocracy , are more intolerable than the very exceffes of a defpotifm , and in gene- ral , much further from any remedy . Thus , my Lord , we have pursued aristocracy through its ...
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