Christian PoliticsLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806 - 445 pages |
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Page xii
... further reflection or experience may lead them to a better , it is to those free and independent spirits , who know how to prefer the whole to a part , and to steer a middle course both in church and state , that , next to the patron ...
... further reflection or experience may lead them to a better , it is to those free and independent spirits , who know how to prefer the whole to a part , and to steer a middle course both in church and state , that , next to the patron ...
Page 4
... further improvements . But while the ruler is proposing to him- self the best models , and endeavouring to copy them as closely as possible , the subject should learn to regulate his expectations by what is practicable in the existing ...
... further improvements . But while the ruler is proposing to him- self the best models , and endeavouring to copy them as closely as possible , the subject should learn to regulate his expectations by what is practicable in the existing ...
Page 6
... further augmented . This magic faculty will lend a charm to the merest trifles ; and to a child of six years old , convert a hobbyhorse or a puppet- show into objects as delightful , as the pride of equipage or the enchantment of a ...
... further augmented . This magic faculty will lend a charm to the merest trifles ; and to a child of six years old , convert a hobbyhorse or a puppet- show into objects as delightful , as the pride of equipage or the enchantment of a ...
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... its just dominion over the propen- sities of animal nature . Instead of this , even after a long training in the schools of philosophers , and the further instruction of experience , it 8 [ PART 1 . General Sketch of Man .
... its just dominion over the propen- sities of animal nature . Instead of this , even after a long training in the schools of philosophers , and the further instruction of experience , it 8 [ PART 1 . General Sketch of Man .
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Ely Bates. philosophers , and the further instruction of experience , it is often found degraded into a mean spy for appetite , or a suborned ad- , vocate to justify its excesses . Among the most celebrated heathen sages , we meet with ...
Ely Bates. philosophers , and the further instruction of experience , it is often found degraded into a mean spy for appetite , or a suborned ad- , vocate to justify its excesses . Among the most celebrated heathen sages , we meet with ...
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