The Selected Writings of Benjamin RushPhilosophical Library, 1947 - 433 pages |
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Page 34
... objects of the government under which it is formed . Think then , my friend , of the expansion and dignity the American mind will acquire , by having its powers transferred from the contracted objects of a state , to the more unbounded ...
... objects of the government under which it is formed . Think then , my friend , of the expansion and dignity the American mind will acquire , by having its powers transferred from the contracted objects of a state , to the more unbounded ...
Page 144
... objects present , the latter , future good and evil . All the objects of the passions are accom- panied with desire or aversion . To the former belong chiefly , hope , love , ambition , and avarice ; to the latter - fear , hatred ...
... objects present , the latter , future good and evil . All the objects of the passions are accom- panied with desire or aversion . To the former belong chiefly , hope , love , ambition , and avarice ; to the latter - fear , hatred ...
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... objects and pleasures of social and domestic life . The necessary and immutable connection between the texture of the human mind , and the worship of an object of some kind , has lately been demonstrated by the atheists of Europe , who ...
... objects and pleasures of social and domestic life . The necessary and immutable connection between the texture of the human mind , and the worship of an object of some kind , has lately been demonstrated by the atheists of Europe , who ...
Contents
ON SLAVEKEEPING 1773 | 3 |
YON HELPING THE AFRICANS date unknown | 24 |
SYLVANIA 1777 | 54 |
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