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... virtue and multiply the sources of social bliss , wise magistrates will direct the people to laudable pursuits , and impressing on them a just con- tempt for sensual gratification , raise and adorn the mo- ral dignity of man . We live ...
... virtue and multiply the sources of social bliss , wise magistrates will direct the people to laudable pursuits , and impressing on them a just con- tempt for sensual gratification , raise and adorn the mo- ral dignity of man . We live ...
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... virtue , displays the glory of successful vice , laughs at the re- straint of moral principle , and chuckles at the commis- sion of crimes , may ( if he please ) call his work philoso- phy teaching by example ; but example so selected ...
... virtue , displays the glory of successful vice , laughs at the re- straint of moral principle , and chuckles at the commis- sion of crimes , may ( if he please ) call his work philoso- phy teaching by example ; but example so selected ...
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... virtue is the principle of republics , he offers human testimony to confirm divine authority . That form of government which God himself had es- tablished ; that code of laws which God himself had pro- mulgated ; those institutions ...
... virtue is the principle of republics , he offers human testimony to confirm divine authority . That form of government which God himself had es- tablished ; that code of laws which God himself had pro- mulgated ; those institutions ...
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... virtue , suppress vice , preserve public peace , and secure nation- al independence . There must be something more to hope than pleasure , wealth , and power . Something more to fear than poverty and pain . Something after death more ...
... virtue , suppress vice , preserve public peace , and secure nation- al independence . There must be something more to hope than pleasure , wealth , and power . Something more to fear than poverty and pain . Something after death more ...
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... virtue , though it swell the youthful bosom with enthusiastic admiration , teach the conduct which befits a Christian people . Hearts chastened by the religion of love would recoil from the Brutus who beheads his son , and the Brutus ...
... virtue , though it swell the youthful bosom with enthusiastic admiration , teach the conduct which befits a Christian people . Hearts chastened by the religion of love would recoil from the Brutus who beheads his son , and the Brutus ...
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