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... peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . " A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine , that war was the state of nature ...
... peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leisure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . " A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine , that war was the state of nature ...
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... peace ? Or shall we pass by this monstrous heap of absurd notions and abominable practices , thinking we have sufficiently discharged our duty in exposing the trifling cheats and ridiculous juggles of a few mad , de- signing , or ...
... peace ? Or shall we pass by this monstrous heap of absurd notions and abominable practices , thinking we have sufficiently discharged our duty in exposing the trifling cheats and ridiculous juggles of a few mad , de- signing , or ...
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... peaceful entrance to truth . PART II . SECTION I.- -OF THE PASSION CAUSED BY THE SUBLIME . THE passion caused by the great and sublime in nature , when those causes operate most powerfully , is astonish- ment ; and astonishment is that ...
... peaceful entrance to truth . PART II . SECTION I.- -OF THE PASSION CAUSED BY THE SUBLIME . THE passion caused by the great and sublime in nature , when those causes operate most powerfully , is astonish- ment ; and astonishment is that ...
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... of the late war were on the part of the Bourbon alliance ; that the peace of Paris perfectly consulted the dignity and interest of this country ; and that the American Stamp - act was 188 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION ,
... of the late war were on the part of the Bourbon alliance ; that the peace of Paris perfectly consulted the dignity and interest of this country ; and that the American Stamp - act was 188 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION ,
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... peace , we are at the same time utterly unfit for war . It is impossible , if this state of things be credited abroad , that we can have any alliance ; all nations will fly from so dangerous a connexion , lest , instead of being ...
... peace , we are at the same time utterly unfit for war . It is impossible , if this state of things be credited abroad , that we can have any alliance ; all nations will fly from so dangerous a connexion , lest , instead of being ...
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