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... fome trifling errors of the tranfcriber were percep- tible in it . The manufcript of the fragments was a rough draft from the Author's own hand , much blotted and very confused . The " Third Letter on the Proposals for Peace , " was in ...
... fome trifling errors of the tranfcriber were percep- tible in it . The manufcript of the fragments was a rough draft from the Author's own hand , much blotted and very confused . The " Third Letter on the Proposals for Peace , " was in ...
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rated one great member of his fubject , for the purpose of introducing fome other matter be- tween . The different parcels of manufcript , defigned to intervene , were discovered . One of them he seemed to have gone over himself , and ...
rated one great member of his fubject , for the purpose of introducing fome other matter be- tween . The different parcels of manufcript , defigned to intervene , were discovered . One of them he seemed to have gone over himself , and ...
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... fome , and to the laziness of others . But this advantage is in great measure loft , when a painful , comprehenfive survey of a very complicated mat- ter , and which requires a great variety of confi- derations , is to be made ; when we ...
... fome , and to the laziness of others . But this advantage is in great measure loft , when a painful , comprehenfive survey of a very complicated mat- ter , and which requires a great variety of confi- derations , is to be made ; when we ...
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... fome under - plot of more confequence than the apparent design , had not been carried on . Some persons have thought that the advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ...
... fome under - plot of more confequence than the apparent design , had not been carried on . Some persons have thought that the advantages of the state of nature ought to have been more fully displayed . This had undoubtedly been a very ...
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... fome love to call it , our inferiour nature , is wifer in its own plain way , and attends its own business more di- rectly than the mind with all its boasted subtilty . In the state of nature , without question , man- kind was fubjected ...
... fome love to call it , our inferiour nature , is wifer in its own plain way , and attends its own business more di- rectly than the mind with all its boasted subtilty . In the state of nature , without question , man- kind was fubjected ...
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