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... conduct , in the Conduct merely , and not in the Event . Suppose we were to fix our Happiness , not in the actual attainment of that health , that perfection of a social state , that fortunate concurrence of externals , which is ...
... conduct , in the Conduct merely , and not in the Event . Suppose we were to fix our Happiness , not in the actual attainment of that health , that perfection of a social state , that fortunate concurrence of externals , which is ...
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... conduct ; but it is in the success of that conduct where storm arise and the ship be lost , we call him not happy , how well soever he may have conducted it . It is then only we congratulate him , when he has reached the desired haven ...
... conduct ; but it is in the success of that conduct where storm arise and the ship be lost , we call him not happy , how well soever he may have conducted it . It is then only we congratulate him , when he has reached the desired haven ...
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... Conduct and that this good corresponded to all our preconceptions . Let us examine , then , whether upon tria ! this correspondence will appear to hold ; and for all that we have advanced , since , suffer it to pass , and not perplex us ...
... Conduct and that this good corresponded to all our preconceptions . Let us examine , then , whether upon tria ! this correspondence will appear to hold ; and for all that we have advanced , since , suffer it to pass , and not perplex us ...
Contents
Virtue our higheſt Intereſt | 2 |
Elegy written in a Coun | 10 |
NARRATIVE PIECES | 14 |
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