Christian PoliticsLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806 - 445 pages |
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Ely Bates. pression , as to regard them with a steady reference to their proper use , namely , the advancement of the real virtue and hap- piness of mankind ; which is the only just end of all human purposes and endeavours . To recal and ...
Ely Bates. pression , as to regard them with a steady reference to their proper use , namely , the advancement of the real virtue and hap- piness of mankind ; which is the only just end of all human purposes and endeavours . To recal and ...
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... proper nourish- ment , he manifests the same kind of un- easiness . After a short time , however , he must be diverted as well as fed ; and his rattle will become hardly less necessary to keep him in good humour , than the satisfying of ...
... proper nourish- ment , he manifests the same kind of un- easiness . After a short time , however , he must be diverted as well as fed ; and his rattle will become hardly less necessary to keep him in good humour , than the satisfying of ...
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... proper rank . Hence too arise most of those wars and violent commotions which so often agitate the world ; while , like Pom- pey and Cæsar , one prince or state will not endure a superior , nor another an equal ; or rather , while each ...
... proper rank . Hence too arise most of those wars and violent commotions which so often agitate the world ; while , like Pom- pey and Cæsar , one prince or state will not endure a superior , nor another an equal ; or rather , while each ...
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... proper , before we pro- ceed to our main design , briefly to consider the more immediate ends of government , and how far they are attainable . Order is the beauty and strength of so- ciety ; look at ten thousand men in the confusion of ...
... proper , before we pro- ceed to our main design , briefly to consider the more immediate ends of government , and how far they are attainable . Order is the beauty and strength of so- ciety ; look at ten thousand men in the confusion of ...
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... other means , the number of idle hands that would thus be thrown upon it , and the consequent de- ficiency of labour , would probably soon Prov . xxiii . 5 . reduce it more below its proper situation , than it 38 [ PART I. Of the immediate.
... other means , the number of idle hands that would thus be thrown upon it , and the consequent de- ficiency of labour , would probably soon Prov . xxiii . 5 . reduce it more below its proper situation , than it 38 [ PART I. Of the immediate.
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