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... no skill . In looking over any ftate to form a judgment on it ; it presents itself in two lights , the external and the internal . The firft , that relation which it it bears in point of friendship or enmity to other NATURAL SOCIETY . 15.
... no skill . In looking over any ftate to form a judgment on it ; it presents itself in two lights , the external and the internal . The firft , that relation which it it bears in point of friendship or enmity to other NATURAL SOCIETY . 15.
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... light upon that part which coincides with Roman history , and of that part only on the point of time when they re- ceived the great and final stroke which made them no more a nation ; a ftroke which is allowed to have cut off little ...
... light upon that part which coincides with Roman history , and of that part only on the point of time when they re- ceived the great and final stroke which made them no more a nation ; a ftroke which is allowed to have cut off little ...
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... light of reafon , till all ideas of rectitude and jus tice are utterly erased from his mind . When Alexander had in his fury inhumanly butchered one of his beft friends and braveft captains ; on the return of reafon he began to conceive ...
... light of reafon , till all ideas of rectitude and jus tice are utterly erased from his mind . When Alexander had in his fury inhumanly butchered one of his beft friends and braveft captains ; on the return of reafon he began to conceive ...
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... light of the fun ; they are buried in the bowels of the earth ; there they work at a fevere and dismal task , without the leaft profpect of being delivered from it ; they fubfift upon the coarseft and worst fort of fare ; they have ...
... light of the fun ; they are buried in the bowels of the earth ; there they work at a fevere and dismal task , without the leaft profpect of being delivered from it ; they fubfift upon the coarseft and worst fort of fare ; they have ...
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... light of reafon at the setting of our life , fhews us what a false splendour played upon these objects during our more fanguine feafons . Happy , my Lord , if inftructed by my experience , and even by my errours , you come early to make ...
... light of reafon at the setting of our life , fhews us what a false splendour played upon these objects during our more fanguine feafons . Happy , my Lord , if inftructed by my experience , and even by my errours , you come early to make ...
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