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... this irredeemable wretchedness is entailed vainly struggles to avert it ; for the stern and inexorable fiat has been registered in the black records of a power which knows no pity , and which nothing divine or human can resist .
... this irredeemable wretchedness is entailed vainly struggles to avert it ; for the stern and inexorable fiat has been registered in the black records of a power which knows no pity , and which nothing divine or human can resist .
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Thus , the weakness and docility of the human mind allowed this sacerdotal caste the means of perpetuating , with its useful maxims , the veneration of which it was the object , and the tranquil initiated enjoyed , in indolence and ...
Thus , the weakness and docility of the human mind allowed this sacerdotal caste the means of perpetuating , with its useful maxims , the veneration of which it was the object , and the tranquil initiated enjoyed , in indolence and ...
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... we shall conclude that the speculative Tuscans , as well as all people naturally anxious for instruction , began their researches by studies inaccessible to human reason , and more likely to confuse than to enlighten it .
... we shall conclude that the speculative Tuscans , as well as all people naturally anxious for instruction , began their researches by studies inaccessible to human reason , and more likely to confuse than to enlighten it .
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Tlustrations of the Waverley Novels Morgan Lady the Life and Times | 1 |
V | 31 |
Revolution in 1688 History of 465 | 32 |
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