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Pàgina 16
... mankind , endeavour to disappoint and undo what the most refined spirits have been labour- ing to advance since the beginning of the world . The very design of dress , good - breeding , outward ornaments , and ceremony , were to lift up ...
... mankind , endeavour to disappoint and undo what the most refined spirits have been labour- ing to advance since the beginning of the world . The very design of dress , good - breeding , outward ornaments , and ceremony , were to lift up ...
Pàgina 31
... mankind , upon no other pretence than that of dissenting from them . One gets by heart a catalogue of title- pages and editions ; and , immediately , to become conspicuous , declares that he is an unbeliever . Another knows how to write ...
... mankind , upon no other pretence than that of dissenting from them . One gets by heart a catalogue of title- pages and editions ; and , immediately , to become conspicuous , declares that he is an unbeliever . Another knows how to write ...
Pàgina 32
... mankind . I love to consider an infidel , whether distinguished by the title of deist , atheist , or free - thinker , in three different lights , in his soli- tudes , his afflictions , and his last moments . A wise man , that lives up ...
... mankind . I love to consider an infidel , whether distinguished by the title of deist , atheist , or free - thinker , in three different lights , in his soli- tudes , his afflictions , and his last moments . A wise man , that lives up ...
Pàgina 37
... mankind , and entertain themselves with diversions and amusements that are agreeable to the very weakest of the species . I must frankly con- fess , that it is to me a beauty in Cato's character , that he would drink a cheerful bottle ...
... mankind , and entertain themselves with diversions and amusements that are agreeable to the very weakest of the species . I must frankly con- fess , that it is to me a beauty in Cato's character , that he would drink a cheerful bottle ...
Pàgina 38
... mankind . It grieves me to the very heart , when I see se- veral young gentlemen , descended of honest parents , run up and down , hurrying from one end of the town to the other , calling in at every place of re- sort , without being ...
... mankind . It grieves me to the very heart , when I see se- veral young gentlemen , descended of honest parents , run up and down , hurrying from one end of the town to the other , calling in at every place of re- sort , without being ...
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