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... Lives of Donne , Wotton , Hooker , & c . 38. 6d . White's Natural History of Bel- borne . 38. 6d . Shakspeare's Plays & Poems . KEIGHTLEY's Edition . 13 Vols . in cloth case , 213 . ELZEVIR SERIES . Small feap . 8vo . THESE Volumes are ...
... Lives of Donne , Wotton , Hooker , & c . 38. 6d . White's Natural History of Bel- borne . 38. 6d . Shakspeare's Plays & Poems . KEIGHTLEY's Edition . 13 Vols . in cloth case , 213 . ELZEVIR SERIES . Small feap . 8vo . THESE Volumes are ...
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... lives of all thinking men extremely miserable , if the same philosophy which caused the grief , did not , at the same time , administer the comfort . On considering political societies , their origin , their con- stitution , and their ...
... lives of all thinking men extremely miserable , if the same philosophy which caused the grief , did not , at the same time , administer the comfort . On considering political societies , their origin , their con- stitution , and their ...
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... lives must have been sacrificed : but no sooner had he fallen himself a sacrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made for ruin to enter , and give the last hand to this scene of misery and destruction . His kingdom was ...
... lives must have been sacrificed : but no sooner had he fallen himself a sacrifice to his vices , than a thousand breaches were made for ruin to enter , and give the last hand to this scene of misery and destruction . His kingdom was ...
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... live under forms that have a milder appearance , that there is scarce a rational man in Europe that would not prefer death to Asiatic des- potism . Here then we have the acknowledgment of a great philosopher , that an irregular state of ...
... live under forms that have a milder appearance , that there is scarce a rational man in Europe that would not prefer death to Asiatic des- potism . Here then we have the acknowledgment of a great philosopher , that an irregular state of ...
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... lives . But unhappily for us , in proportion as we have deviated from the plain rule of our nature , and turned our reason against itself , in that proportion have we increased the follies and miseries of mankind . The more deeply we ...
... lives . But unhappily for us , in proportion as we have deviated from the plain rule of our nature , and turned our reason against itself , in that proportion have we increased the follies and miseries of mankind . The more deeply we ...
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