English Prose of the Eighteenth CenturyCecil Albert Moore |
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... Nature we find is hardly mastered , but lies sullen , and ready to revolt on the first occasion . Much more is this the mind's case in respect of that natural affection and anticipating fancy which makes the sense of right and wrong ...
... Nature we find is hardly mastered , but lies sullen , and ready to revolt on the first occasion . Much more is this the mind's case in respect of that natural affection and anticipating fancy which makes the sense of right and wrong ...
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... Nature ; and that which could make a promise obligatory promise obligatory in the State of Nature must make all other acts of humanity as much our real duty and natural part . Thus faith , jus- tice , honesty , and virtue must have been ...
... Nature ; and that which could make a promise obligatory promise obligatory in the State of Nature must make all other acts of humanity as much our real duty and natural part . Thus faith , jus- tice , honesty , and virtue must have been ...
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... nature or friendship , or through any so- cial or natural affection of any kind ; when , perhaps , the mainsprings of this machine will be found to be either these very natural affections themselves or a compound kind derived from them ...
... nature or friendship , or through any so- cial or natural affection of any kind ; when , perhaps , the mainsprings of this machine will be found to be either these very natural affections themselves or a compound kind derived from them ...
Contents
PREFACE | 4 |
THE POOR MANS PLEA | 14 |
THE SHORTEST WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS | 23 |
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