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An Essay on Public Happiness: Investigating the State of Human Nature, Under ... - Page 418
by François Jean marquis de Chastellux - 1774
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Annual Register, Volume 19

Edmund Burke - History - 1779 - 750 pages
...our part to conduit the public bufinefs. But you ihould he entirely devoted to pleafure*." It is ealy to conceive that in the midft of fo much luxury, and...daily degenerating; Petronius and Lucian have made us iufficiently acquain:ed with the parade and extravagance, peculiar to the entertainments, which were...
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The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 19

Edmund Burke - History - 1788 - 638 pages
...mould be entirely devoted to pleafure *." It is eal'y to conceive that in the midft of fo much lux. ury and effeminacy, the public morals were daily degenerating....entertainments, which were given in their times : but as Ammianus Marcellinus hath taken the pains to defcribe the mam ers of the Romans, during a lefs dillant...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1788 - 642 pages
...Circus. It is our part to conduit the public bulinefs. But you (hould be entirely devoted to pleafure *." It is eafy to conceive that in the midft of fo much...public morals were daily degenerating. Petronius and Lucían have made us fufficiemly acquainted with the parade and extravagance peculiar to the entertainments,...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 19

History - 1788 - 638 pages
...pare to conduit the public bufinefs. 6ut you mould be entirely devoted to pleafure *." It' is e^iy to conceive that in the midft of fo much luxury and...effeminacy, the public morals were daily degenerating. Pctronius and Lucian have made us fufficiently acquainted with the parade and extravagance peculiar...
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Agriculture and Population the Truest Proofs of the Welfare of the People ...

François Jean marquis de Chastellux - Social history - 1792 - 504 pages
...Circus. It is our part to conduit the public bufmefs. But you jhould he entirely devoted to pleafure.(q) It is eafy to conceive that in the midft of fo much...daily degenerating. Petronius and Lucian have made us fu/ficiently acquainted with the parade and extravagance, peculiar to the entertainments, which were...
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