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... Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Vegetables III . Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Animals IV . Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in the Human Species v . Proportion further considered VI . Fitness not the cause of Beauty ...
... Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Vegetables III . Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Animals IV . Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in the Human Species v . Proportion further considered VI . Fitness not the cause of Beauty ...
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... proportion of rage and fury in their composi- tion than we have . But with respect to you , ye legislators , ye civilizers of mankind ! ye Orpheuses , Moseses , Minoses , Solons , Theseuses , Lycurguses , Numas ! with respect to you be ...
... proportion of rage and fury in their composi- tion than we have . But with respect to you , ye legislators , ye civilizers of mankind ! ye Orpheuses , Moseses , Minoses , Solons , Theseuses , Lycurguses , Numas ! with respect to you be ...
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... proportion to the wretchedness and slavery of his subjects . Thus encouraged both by passion and inter- est to trample on the public welfare , and by his station placed above both shame and fear , he proceeds to the most horrid and ...
... proportion to the wretchedness and slavery of his subjects . Thus encouraged both by passion and inter- est to trample on the public welfare , and by his station placed above both shame and fear , he proceeds to the most horrid and ...
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... proportion to those whom they held in a slavery even more terrible than the Athenian . Therefore state the matter fairly : the free states never formed , though they were taken altogether , the thousandth part of the habitable globe ...
... proportion to those whom they held in a slavery even more terrible than the Athenian . Therefore state the matter fairly : the free states never formed , though they were taken altogether , the thousandth part of the habitable globe ...
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... 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 penetrate into the labyrinth of art ...
... 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 penetrate into the labyrinth of art ...
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