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Page iii
... pleasures , they promote benevolence : by cherishing love of order , they enforce fubmiffion to government : and by infpiring delicacy of feeling , they make regular government a double bleffing . These confiderations embolden me to ...
... pleasures , they promote benevolence : by cherishing love of order , they enforce fubmiffion to government : and by infpiring delicacy of feeling , they make regular government a double bleffing . These confiderations embolden me to ...
Page iv
... pleasure , is commonly vented on luxury , and on every fenfual gratification : Selfifhnefs rears its head ; becomes fafhionable ; and , infecting all ranks , extinguishes the amor patrie , and every fpark of public fpirit . To prevent ...
... pleasure , is commonly vented on luxury , and on every fenfual gratification : Selfifhnefs rears its head ; becomes fafhionable ; and , infecting all ranks , extinguishes the amor patrie , and every fpark of public fpirit . To prevent ...
Page vi
... pleasure of human nature , is enjoyed by a virtuous prince governing a virtuous people ; and that , by per- fecting the great fyftem of education , your Ma- jefty may very long enjoy this pleasure , is the ardent wifh of Your Majefty's ...
... pleasure of human nature , is enjoyed by a virtuous prince governing a virtuous people ; and that , by per- fecting the great fyftem of education , your Ma- jefty may very long enjoy this pleasure , is the ardent wifh of Your Majefty's ...
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... pleasures of the eye and the car , being thus elevated above thofe of the other external fenfes , acquire fo much dignity as to become a laudable entertainment . They are not , however , set on a level with the purely intellectual ...
... pleasures of the eye and the car , being thus elevated above thofe of the other external fenfes , acquire fo much dignity as to become a laudable entertainment . They are not , however , set on a level with the purely intellectual ...
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... pleasures of the eye and the ear , have other valuable properties befide thofe of dignity and ele- vation being sweet and moderately exhilarating , they are in their tone equally distant from the tur- bulence of paffion , and the ...
... pleasures of the eye and the ear , have other valuable properties befide thofe of dignity and ele- vation being sweet and moderately exhilarating , they are in their tone equally distant from the tur- bulence of paffion , and the ...
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