Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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... causes of impulse , and of gravity , in this case he must look out for maxims as universal as those occa- sions to which he would apply them . Perhaps he might begin by affirming with me that - men are the same , and this will naturally ...
... causes of impulse , and of gravity , in this case he must look out for maxims as universal as those occa- sions to which he would apply them . Perhaps he might begin by affirming with me that - men are the same , and this will naturally ...
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... cause ; and theirs is an unpopularity that will remain , because they are not before the main body but be- hind it ; and as it proceeds , every moment increases the distance of those sluggards that are sleeping in the rear , but ...
... cause ; and theirs is an unpopularity that will remain , because they are not before the main body but be- hind it ; and as it proceeds , every moment increases the distance of those sluggards that are sleeping in the rear , but ...
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... cause why experience preaches to us all in vain . Hence it happens , that both in public and in private life , we so constantly see men playing that very game at which they know that others have been ruined ; but they flatter them ...
... cause why experience preaches to us all in vain . Hence it happens , that both in public and in private life , we so constantly see men playing that very game at which they know that others have been ruined ; but they flatter them ...
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... caused men to stumble and trip . Never- theless they had so numerous an audience , that the common business of life ran a risk of being neglected for speculations upon it , and it was fortunate that some of these sages , not only walked ...
... caused men to stumble and trip . Never- theless they had so numerous an audience , that the common business of life ran a risk of being neglected for speculations upon it , and it was fortunate that some of these sages , not only walked ...
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... causes are now conspiring to increase the trunk of infidelity , but materialism is the main root of them all . Are we to live after death ? and if we are , in what state ? The second question evidently depends upor the first , for he ...
... causes are now conspiring to increase the trunk of infidelity , but materialism is the main root of them all . Are we to live after death ? and if we are , in what state ? The second question evidently depends upor the first , for he ...
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