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... mankind being very apt to think that every thing which is laughed at , with any mixture of wit , is ridiculous in itself . - Addison . XXV . While we are reasoning concerning life , life is gone , and death , though perhaps they receive ...
... mankind being very apt to think that every thing which is laughed at , with any mixture of wit , is ridiculous in itself . - Addison . XXV . While we are reasoning concerning life , life is gone , and death , though perhaps they receive ...
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... Mankind may be divided into the merry and the serious , who , both of them , make a very good figure in the spe- cies , so long as they keep their respective humours from degenerating into the neighbouring extreme ; there being a ...
... Mankind may be divided into the merry and the serious , who , both of them , make a very good figure in the spe- cies , so long as they keep their respective humours from degenerating into the neighbouring extreme ; there being a ...
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... mankind.- Hume . LVI . How many languages are there which you do not under- stand with regard to all these you are as if you were deaf ; yet you are indifferent about the matter . Is it then so great a misfortune to be deaf to one ...
... mankind.- Hume . LVI . How many languages are there which you do not under- stand with regard to all these you are as if you were deaf ; yet you are indifferent about the matter . Is it then so great a misfortune to be deaf to one ...
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... mankind in this world were drawn together , and put into the possession of any single man , it would not make a very happy being . Though on the contrary , if the miseries of the whole species were fixed in a single person , they would ...
... mankind in this world were drawn together , and put into the possession of any single man , it would not make a very happy being . Though on the contrary , if the miseries of the whole species were fixed in a single person , they would ...
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... mankind had bound them- selves by an oath to do all the wickedness they can ; that they had all ( as the scripture speaks ) " sold themselves to sin : " the difference only is , that some are a little more crafty ( and but a little ...
... mankind had bound them- selves by an oath to do all the wickedness they can ; that they had all ( as the scripture speaks ) " sold themselves to sin : " the difference only is , that some are a little more crafty ( and but a little ...
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Apicius bagnio beauty Ben Jonson better body Bruyere Butler Chesterfield Churchill Codrus common conversation death delight dicebox doth dress enemy Epictetus Euripides evil eyes false fame fancy fear folly fools fortune friends genius gentleman give greatest happiness hath heart honest honour Hudibras human humour ignorance inns of court judgment keep kind knave laugh learning less live look Lord Bacon LUDGATE HILL man's mankind manner marriage Massinger matter merit mind Montaigne nature neral never numbers observed opinion pain pass passion pedants person philosopher pleasure Plutarch poet poor praise pride proud racters reason rich ridiculous Roman triumph satire seldom sense Shaftesbury Shakspeare Shenstone soul speak stand sure Swift talk tell thing thou thought tion true truth turn vanity vice virtue whilst whole wise words write young