Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: Part III. ... By Jeremy Collier, M.A.George Strahan, 1720 - 108 pages |
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... Mind immediately receives a grating Information of what has happen'd : Which Intelligence is more or lefs trou- blesome in Proportion to the Disadvan- tage of the Accident . Now this unwel- come Senfation is what we call Pain . However ...
... Mind immediately receives a grating Information of what has happen'd : Which Intelligence is more or lefs trou- blesome in Proportion to the Disadvan- tage of the Accident . Now this unwel- come Senfation is what we call Pain . However ...
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... Mind . ' Tis Intem- pérance and Covetoufnefs , ' tis Pride and Paffion , which oftentimes throws the Conftitution off the Hinges , and makes the Senfes fuffer . For inftance , a Man of Choler and Conceit takes fire at an in- fignificant ...
... Mind . ' Tis Intem- pérance and Covetoufnefs , ' tis Pride and Paffion , which oftentimes throws the Conftitution off the Hinges , and makes the Senfes fuffer . For inftance , a Man of Choler and Conceit takes fire at an in- fignificant ...
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... Mind raises a Battery against the Body , the Thoughts are play'd upon the Health , and the Conftitution batter'd to pieces . And whence comes all this Misfortune , but from over - rating our Pretenfions ; for- getting our Failings , and ...
... Mind raises a Battery against the Body , the Thoughts are play'd upon the Health , and the Conftitution batter'd to pieces . And whence comes all this Misfortune , but from over - rating our Pretenfions ; for- getting our Failings , and ...
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... not think it fo decent to complain . And yet feveral of Homer's Heroes make a lamentable Business of å Flefh Wound : But without doubt a great deal of the Anguish may be fenc'd off off by the Force of the Mind , by a 6 A MORAL ESSAY.
... not think it fo decent to complain . And yet feveral of Homer's Heroes make a lamentable Business of å Flefh Wound : But without doubt a great deal of the Anguish may be fenc'd off off by the Force of the Mind , by a 6 A MORAL ESSAY.
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... Mind , by a strong Senfe of Honour and Shame , by a Con- fcioufnefs of Innocence and Merit , and above all , by the comfortable Expecta- tions of another World . The Stoicks were fo fanciful , as to maintain that Pain was nothing of an ...
... Mind , by a strong Senfe of Honour and Shame , by a Con- fcioufnefs of Innocence and Merit , and above all , by the comfortable Expecta- tions of another World . The Stoicks were fo fanciful , as to maintain that Pain was nothing of an ...
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