The Citizen of NatureW. Benbow, 1824 - 238 Seiten |
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... virtue and more vice , more freedom and more slavery , more riches and more poverty , more truth and more falsehood - in short , more opposite extremes in every shape , than on any spot of like magnitude in our globe . You are going to ...
... virtue and more vice , more freedom and more slavery , more riches and more poverty , more truth and more falsehood - in short , more opposite extremes in every shape , than on any spot of like magnitude in our globe . You are going to ...
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... virtue , honour , empty sounds without a meaning ? If so , how have I deceived myself . L , looking at me for a second or two , replied , with a benignant smile , " No , that would be indeed a dreadful state of things , which every good ...
... virtue , honour , empty sounds without a meaning ? If so , how have I deceived myself . L , looking at me for a second or two , replied , with a benignant smile , " No , that would be indeed a dreadful state of things , which every good ...
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... Virtue ; if in dissonance , Evil , or Vice . " It has been said this standard is false , or subject to variation , because men's consciences and notions of good and evil , are not every where the same ; and that therefore it will not ...
... Virtue ; if in dissonance , Evil , or Vice . " It has been said this standard is false , or subject to variation , because men's consciences and notions of good and evil , are not every where the same ; and that therefore it will not ...
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... virtue in one place , is not in another : it remains for us to see whether they are , or are not , abstract and ab- solute in their essence ; orto speak more plainly , that virtue is virtue , and vice is vice , in all places and at all ...
... virtue in one place , is not in another : it remains for us to see whether they are , or are not , abstract and ab- solute in their essence ; orto speak more plainly , that virtue is virtue , and vice is vice , in all places and at all ...
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... things which belong to man , as man , by virtue of his superior understanding and pre- rogative , as the master - piece of that part of the universe demonstrably known by him ; and to define 28 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... things which belong to man , as man , by virtue of his superior understanding and pre- rogative , as the master - piece of that part of the universe demonstrably known by him ; and to define 28 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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acquired action animal artificial assert Atheist become belief blood cause certainly chimney sweeper civil clothing common conscience consequence Deism Deist dreadful earth emotion endeavour enjoyment enquiry equality equipoise eternity evil existence eyes faculties fancy father fear feeling fool founded free agency fresh genus Gil Blas give hand happiness HARVARD COLLEGE hear heart Holborn human idea ignorance instance intellect knowledge labour laws ledge LETTER listen look luxuries marriage Maurepas mean ment mental middle men mind misery mode nation natural justice natural law Nature necessity never observe once pain Paradise Lost perhaps persons philanthropy pleasure possession present principles proof reason receive revelation sense slavery sort soul sounds speak species surface tell term thee Theocracy things thou thought tion true truth turn unnatural virtue Whigs
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Seite 160 - The man who resolutely divesting himself of habit and prejudice, of the false impressions imbibed from early childhood, resolves to know Truth, if haply she may be found, is sure to be assailed, threatened, mimicked, and insulted, with abuse the most pitiful and inane, with derision the most paltry, stupid, and futile, wholly unworthy of the exaltation to which human attainmentboasts to have arrived. 'His honesty is decried as presumption, his avowal of naked truth as sedition; his exposure of existing...
Seite 162 - Necker,'that reason suits neither you or me: Sully did not go to mass, and Sully was of the council.' ' Maurepas, in this answer, only caught at the ridicule of...