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... and unless education has been totally neglected , or erroneously pursued , its
habits are usually virtuous . Furnished with a natural susceptibility , and free from
any acquired impediment , the mind is then in the most favourable state for the ...
... and unless education has been totally neglected , or erroneously pursued , its
habits are usually virtuous . Furnished with a natural susceptibility , and free from
any acquired impediment , the mind is then in the most favourable state for the ...
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It is a state worse than non - entity , since it poffefses a restless power of action ,
productive of nothing but misery . I very seriously recommend , therefore , to all
who wish to enjoy their existence , ( and who entertains not that wish ? ) that they
...
It is a state worse than non - entity , since it poffefses a restless power of action ,
productive of nothing but misery . I very seriously recommend , therefore , to all
who wish to enjoy their existence , ( and who entertains not that wish ? ) that they
...
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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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... de pravity , the effects of a fallen and degenerate state ; in proof of which we
need only observe , that the nearer he approaches to a state of nature , the more
predomi . nant this disposition appears , and the more violently it operates .
... de pravity , the effects of a fallen and degenerate state ; in proof of which we
need only observe , that the nearer he approaches to a state of nature , the more
predomi . nant this disposition appears , and the more violently it operates .
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Damocles , one of his flatterers , was compliment . ing him upon his power , his
treasures , and the magnificence of his royal state , and affirming , that no
monarch ever was greater or happier than he . « Have you a mind , Damocles , "
fays the ...
Damocles , one of his flatterers , was compliment . ing him upon his power , his
treasures , and the magnificence of his royal state , and affirming , that no
monarch ever was greater or happier than he . « Have you a mind , Damocles , "
fays the ...
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