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... measure lost , when a painful , comprehensive survey of a very complicated matter , and which requires a great ... measures and their method of arrangement ; when we must go out of the sphere of our ordinary ideas , and when we can ...
... measure lost , when a painful , comprehensive survey of a very complicated matter , and which requires a great ... measures and their method of arrangement ; when we must go out of the sphere of our ordinary ideas , and when we can ...
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... measures of happiness , should be like- wise the only measures by which we should direct our reason- ing . To these we should conform in good earnest ; and not think to force nature , and the whole order of her system , by a compliance ...
... measures of happiness , should be like- wise the only measures by which we should direct our reason- ing . To these we should conform in good earnest ; and not think to force nature , and the whole order of her system , by a compliance ...
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... measure , in some degree , the others ; you will turn your eyes on Judea ; a very inconsiderable spot of the earth in itself , though en- nobled by the singular events which had their rise in that country . This spot happened , it ...
... measure , in some degree , the others ; you will turn your eyes on Judea ; a very inconsiderable spot of the earth in itself , though en- nobled by the singular events which had their rise in that country . This spot happened , it ...
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... measures , and in- struments of violence , which are everywhere used to sup- port them . Let us take a review of the dungeons , whips , chains , racks , gibbets , with which every society is abundantly stored ; by which hundreds of ...
... measures , and in- struments of violence , which are everywhere used to sup- port them . Let us take a review of the dungeons , whips , chains , racks , gibbets , with which every society is abundantly stored ; by which hundreds of ...
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... measure of his iniquity , in rapine , in luxury , and in revenge . Every avenue to the throne is shut up . He oppresses and ruins the people , whilst he persuades the prince , that those murmurs raised by his own oppression are the ...
... measure of his iniquity , in rapine , in luxury , and in revenge . Every avenue to the throne is shut up . He oppresses and ruins the people , whilst he persuades the prince , that those murmurs raised by his own oppression are the ...
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