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Providence never intended that any state here should be either completely happy
, or entirely miserable . If the feelings of pleasure are more numerous , and more
lively , in the higher departments of life , fuch also are those of pain . If opulence ...
Providence never intended that any state here should be either completely happy
, or entirely miserable . If the feelings of pleasure are more numerous , and more
lively , in the higher departments of life , fuch also are those of pain . If opulence ...
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We should find it hard to vindicate the destroying any thing that has life , merely
out of wantonness : Yet in this principle our children are bred up ; and one of the
first pleasures we allow them is , the licence of inflicting pain upon poor animals ...
We should find it hard to vindicate the destroying any thing that has life , merely
out of wantonness : Yet in this principle our children are bred up ; and one of the
first pleasures we allow them is , the licence of inflicting pain upon poor animals ...
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So violent are the passions of anger and revenge in the human breast , that it is
not wonderful that men should persecute their real or imaginary enemies with
cruelty and malevolence ; but that there should exist in nature a being who can ...
So violent are the passions of anger and revenge in the human breast , that it is
not wonderful that men should persecute their real or imaginary enemies with
cruelty and malevolence ; but that there should exist in nature a being who can ...
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To avoid depravity like this , it is not necessary that any one should aspire to
heroism or fanctity ; but only , that he should resolve not to quit the rank which
nature assigns , and wish to maintain the dignity of a human being . Nancy
DODO 27 ...
To avoid depravity like this , it is not necessary that any one should aspire to
heroism or fanctity ; but only , that he should resolve not to quit the rank which
nature assigns , and wish to maintain the dignity of a human being . Nancy
DODO 27 ...
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... and excess contribute greatly to destroy all the susceptible delicacy with which
nature usually furnishes the heart ; and , in the general extinction of our better
qualities , it is no wonder that so pure a sentiment as that of piety should be one
of ...
... and excess contribute greatly to destroy all the susceptible delicacy with which
nature usually furnishes the heart ; and , in the general extinction of our better
qualities , it is no wonder that so pure a sentiment as that of piety should be one
of ...
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