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... ment . This opinion of our own constancy is so prevalent , that we always despise him who suffers his general and settled purpose to be overpowered by an occasional de- sire . They , therefore , whom frequent failures have made ...
... ment . This opinion of our own constancy is so prevalent , that we always despise him who suffers his general and settled purpose to be overpowered by an occasional de- sire . They , therefore , whom frequent failures have made ...
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... ment perish , rather than be maintained by iniquity . Better would it be to restrain the turbulence of the natives by the authority of the sword , and to make them amenable to law and justice by an effectual and vigorous police , than ...
... ment perish , rather than be maintained by iniquity . Better would it be to restrain the turbulence of the natives by the authority of the sword , and to make them amenable to law and justice by an effectual and vigorous police , than ...
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... ment were very high . Intellectual pre - eminence , he ob- served , was the highest superiority ; and that every nation derived their highest reputation from the splendour and dignity of their writers . Voltaire , he said , was a good ...
... ment were very high . Intellectual pre - eminence , he ob- served , was the highest superiority ; and that every nation derived their highest reputation from the splendour and dignity of their writers . Voltaire , he said , was a good ...
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James Boswell. " He observed , a principal source of erroneous judge- ment was , viewing things partially , and only on one side ; as , for instance , fortune - hunters , when they contemplated the fortunes singly and separately , it was ...
James Boswell. " He observed , a principal source of erroneous judge- ment was , viewing things partially , and only on one side ; as , for instance , fortune - hunters , when they contemplated the fortunes singly and separately , it was ...
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... ment ; and I wonder that ministry did not make the ex- periment . I at length renewed a correspondence which had been too long discontinued . TO DR . JOHNSON . " Edinburgh , April 18 , 1771 . " MY DEAR SIR , -I can now fully understand ...
... ment ; and I wonder that ministry did not make the ex- periment . I at length renewed a correspondence which had been too long discontinued . TO DR . JOHNSON . " Edinburgh , April 18 , 1771 . " MY DEAR SIR , -I can now fully understand ...
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