The Works of the Late Reverend Mr. Robert Riccaltoun, Minister of the Gospel at Hobkirk, Volume 1A. Murray & J. Cochran, 1771 |
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... ca- pacities ; and perhaps it is the prerogative of the perfect being alone , who is the fole proprietor of it , to understand its nature . There There is another , and which is reckoned a more ΙΟ Eff . I. Of HAPPINESS.
... ca- pacities ; and perhaps it is the prerogative of the perfect being alone , who is the fole proprietor of it , to understand its nature . There There is another , and which is reckoned a more ΙΟ Eff . I. Of HAPPINESS.
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... perhaps lodged in more perfect bodies , and others quite difengaged from matter ; could we bring them under our observa- tion , we would , no doubt , find the fame difproportionate enjoyments fubfifting a- mong them . This difference in ...
... perhaps lodged in more perfect bodies , and others quite difengaged from matter ; could we bring them under our observa- tion , we would , no doubt , find the fame difproportionate enjoyments fubfifting a- mong them . This difference in ...
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... perhaps quite unnatural , to another . Hence the great difficulty and fallacy in judging what is natural , and what other- wife . Compare` a child , or even an un- taught man , with a great genius , culti- vate and improved to the best ...
... perhaps quite unnatural , to another . Hence the great difficulty and fallacy in judging what is natural , and what other- wife . Compare` a child , or even an un- taught man , with a great genius , culti- vate and improved to the best ...
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... perhaps even in wild nature ; and when it refts there , is fo far from being a virtue , that it is really the most pernicious vice , as it effectually marrs one's happiness , by hindering his advance- ment toward fuch degrees of ...
... perhaps even in wild nature ; and when it refts there , is fo far from being a virtue , that it is really the most pernicious vice , as it effectually marrs one's happiness , by hindering his advance- ment toward fuch degrees of ...
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... perhaps the most rational of all , and un- doubtedly the honefteft ; making thereby a fair acknowledgement of the vanity of all the attempts that had been made to ac- count for thefe fort of appearances , and the impoffibility of doing ...
... perhaps the most rational of all , and un- doubtedly the honefteft ; making thereby a fair acknowledgement of the vanity of all the attempts that had been made to ac- count for thefe fort of appearances , and the impoffibility of doing ...
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