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... dispositions more fierce , and arms more terrible , than ever she intended we should use . It is an incontestable truth , that there is more havoc made in one year by men of men , than has been made by all the lions , tigers , panthers ...
... dispositions more fierce , and arms more terrible , than ever she intended we should use . It is an incontestable truth , that there is more havoc made in one year by men of men , than has been made by all the lions , tigers , panthers ...
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... disposition , a sweet person , a sweet condition , and the like . It is confessed , that custom and some other causes have made many deviations from the natural pleasures or pains which belong to these several tastes : but then the ...
... disposition , a sweet person , a sweet condition , and the like . It is confessed , that custom and some other causes have made many deviations from the natural pleasures or pains which belong to these several tastes : but then the ...
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... disposition of those ideas which it has received from the senses . Now the imagination is the most extensive pro- vince of pleasure and pain , as it is the region of our fears and our hopes , and of all our passions that are connected ...
... disposition of those ideas which it has received from the senses . Now the imagination is the most extensive pro- vince of pleasure and pain , as it is the region of our fears and our hopes , and of all our passions that are connected ...
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... disposition , where decorum , where con- gruity are concerned , in short , wherever the best taste differs from the worst , I am convinced that the understand- ing operates , and nothing else ; and its operation is in reality far from ...
... disposition , where decorum , where con- gruity are concerned , in short , wherever the best taste differs from the worst , I am convinced that the understand- ing operates , and nothing else ; and its operation is in reality far from ...
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... disposed to the pleasures of love , because they are to be guided by reason in the time and manner of indulging them . Had any great pain arisen from the want of this satisfaction , reason , I am afraid , would find great difficulties ...
... disposed to the pleasures of love , because they are to be guided by reason in the time and manner of indulging them . Had any great pain arisen from the want of this satisfaction , reason , I am afraid , would find great difficulties ...
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