An enquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An enquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religionT. Cadell, in the Strand: and A. Kincaid, and A. Donaldson, at Edinburgh., 1772 |
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... happiness , direct our steps in these paths by the foundeft precepts and moft illuftrious examples . They make us feel the difference between vice and virtue ; they excite and re- gulate our fentiments ; and fo they can but bend our ...
... happiness , direct our steps in these paths by the foundeft precepts and moft illuftrious examples . They make us feel the difference between vice and virtue ; they excite and re- gulate our fentiments ; and fo they can but bend our ...
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... happiest reasoning , to have alfo determined the laws and forces , by which the revolutions of the planets are governed and directed . The like has been performed with regard to other parts of nature . And there is no reason to despair ...
... happiest reasoning , to have alfo determined the laws and forces , by which the revolutions of the planets are governed and directed . The like has been performed with regard to other parts of nature . And there is no reason to despair ...
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... happiness , which he hopes to attain by the gratification of fome paffion or affection , he feldom acts or fpeaks or thinks without a purpose and intention . He has still some object in view ; and however improper the means may ...
... happiness , which he hopes to attain by the gratification of fome paffion or affection , he feldom acts or fpeaks or thinks without a purpose and intention . He has still some object in view ; and however improper the means may ...
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... happiness will , in the end , refult to all created beings , without any mix- ture of pofitive or absolute ill and mifery . Every phy- fical ill , fay they , makes an essential part of this bene- volent system , and could not poffibly ...
... happiness will , in the end , refult to all created beings , without any mix- ture of pofitive or absolute ill and mifery . Every phy- fical ill , fay they , makes an essential part of this bene- volent system , and could not poffibly ...
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... happiness and welfare ? Are fuch remote and uncertain fpeculations able to counterbalance the fentiments , which arife from the natural and imme- diate view of the objects ? A man , who is robbed of a confiderable fum ; does he find his ...
... happiness and welfare ? Are fuch remote and uncertain fpeculations able to counterbalance the fentiments , which arife from the natural and imme- diate view of the objects ? A man , who is robbed of a confiderable fum ; does he find his ...
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