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... various tracts , of a less popular description , which he designed for private cir- culation , culation , in quarters where he supposed they might produce vi ADVERTISEMENT . Of the Passions which belong to Self-pre- servation.
... various tracts , of a less popular description , which he designed for private cir- culation , culation , in quarters where he supposed they might produce vi ADVERTISEMENT . Of the Passions which belong to Self-pre- servation.
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... less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been facrificed ; but no fooner had he fallen himself a sacrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made for ruin to enter , and give the laft hand to this scene of mifery and ...
... less than twelve hundred thousand lives must have been facrificed ; but no fooner had he fallen himself a sacrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made for ruin to enter , and give the laft hand to this scene of mifery and ...
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... less than three millions of their inhabitants . ? What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the republican and tyrannical parties , and the ...
... less than three millions of their inhabitants . ? What an Aceldama , what a field of blood Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government was controverted between the republican and tyrannical parties , and the ...
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... less than three millions of the spe- cies . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very small part , of the havock caused by the Roman ambition . The war with Mithridates was very little less bloody ; that prince cut off at one ...
... less than three millions of the spe- cies . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very small part , of the havock caused by the Roman ambition . The war with Mithridates was very little less bloody ; that prince cut off at one ...
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... less than two millions of that people . I fay nothing of the loppings made from that stock whilft it stood ; nor from the fuckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if in this inconfiderable part of the globe , fuch a car ...
... less than two millions of that people . I fay nothing of the loppings made from that stock whilft it stood ; nor from the fuckers that grew out of the old root ever since . But if in this inconfiderable part of the globe , fuch a car ...
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