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... Species of Artificial Society A Philofophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful ; with an Intro- ductory Difcourfe concerning Tafte . xxiii I 81 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER . THE late Mr. Burke , Sandfan ...
... Species of Artificial Society A Philofophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful ; with an Intro- ductory Difcourfe concerning Tafte . xxiii I 81 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER . THE late Mr. Burke , Sandfan ...
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... SPECIES OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETY . IN A LETTER TO LORD BY A LATE NOBLE WRITER . 1756 . VOL . I. B BE PREFACE . EFORE the philofophical works of Lord Bo- A Vindication of Natural Society: or, a View the Miferies and Evils arifing to Mankind ...
... SPECIES OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETY . IN A LETTER TO LORD BY A LATE NOBLE WRITER . 1756 . VOL . I. B BE PREFACE . EFORE the philofophical works of Lord Bo- A Vindication of Natural Society: or, a View the Miferies and Evils arifing to Mankind ...
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... species of government . The manner of ruling being direct- ed merely by the will of the weakeft , and gene- rally the worst man in the fociety , becomes the most foolish and capricious thing , at the fame time that it is the most ...
... species of government . The manner of ruling being direct- ed merely by the will of the weakeft , and gene- rally the worst man in the fociety , becomes the most foolish and capricious thing , at the fame time that it is the most ...
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... only abused , and infulted , but it is actually degraded and funk into a species of brutality . The confideration of this made Mr. Locke fay , with D 4 great great juftice , that a government of this kind was NATURAL SOCIETY . 39.
... only abused , and infulted , but it is actually degraded and funk into a species of brutality . The confideration of this made Mr. Locke fay , with D 4 great great juftice , that a government of this kind was NATURAL SOCIETY . 39.
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... species of government is fo galling , that whenever the peo- ple have got the leaft power , they have shaken it off with the utmost indignation , and established a popular form . And when they have not had ftrength enough to fupport ...
... species of government is fo galling , that whenever the peo- ple have got the leaft power , they have shaken it off with the utmost indignation , and established a popular form . And when they have not had ftrength enough to fupport ...
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