Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: Part III. ... By Jeremy Collier, M.A.George Strahan, 1720 - 108 pages |
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... Advantage . And upon a Computation we fhall find the Total of Satisfaction much greater than that of Inconvenience : Which confidering the defenceless State of our Senfes , and how ftrangely they lie open to Pain , is a wonderful ...
... Advantage . And upon a Computation we fhall find the Total of Satisfaction much greater than that of Inconvenience : Which confidering the defenceless State of our Senfes , and how ftrangely they lie open to Pain , is a wonderful ...
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... Advantage . Their Courage under this Security , is much the fame as it would be for a Cuiraffier to fight a naked Man who had nothing to ftrike with but a Bulrufh . Not but that an impregnable Nature is a mighty Privilege , and well ...
... Advantage . Their Courage under this Security , is much the fame as it would be for a Cuiraffier to fight a naked Man who had nothing to ftrike with but a Bulrufh . Not but that an impregnable Nature is a mighty Privilege , and well ...
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... Advantage of Drum or Trum- pet to encourage them . Besides , their Brains , as they manag'd , could do little for them , when they were fick . Where- as the Grecians , who were better po- lif'd , could make their Education fer- viceable ...
... Advantage of Drum or Trum- pet to encourage them . Besides , their Brains , as they manag'd , could do little for them , when they were fick . Where- as the Grecians , who were better po- lif'd , could make their Education fer- viceable ...
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... Advantage . Tyrants must put good People out of their Pain in a little time , tho ' never fo unwilling . For Torment like a Storm fpends it felf , and is deftroy'd by its own Force . The best Enfurance against any Acci- dent of this ...
... Advantage . Tyrants must put good People out of their Pain in a little time , tho ' never fo unwilling . For Torment like a Storm fpends it felf , and is deftroy'd by its own Force . The best Enfurance against any Acci- dent of this ...
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... Advantage which belongs to themselves is more indepen- dent , and within reach , than that which is foreign : The Sweets of it may be tafted at Pleasure : And being thus ab- folute and unprecarious , there is more Service in the ...
... Advantage which belongs to themselves is more indepen- dent , and within reach , than that which is foreign : The Sweets of it may be tafted at Pleasure : And being thus ab- folute and unprecarious , there is more Service in the ...
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