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Page 242
... nature ; but without it are like hy- pocrisy in religion , or a bare form of holiness , which , when it is discovered , makes a man more detestable than professed impiety . Good - nature is generally born with us ; health , prosperity ...
... nature ; but without it are like hy- pocrisy in religion , or a bare form of holiness , which , when it is discovered , makes a man more detestable than professed impiety . Good - nature is generally born with us ; health , prosperity ...
Page 254
... nature as this , is not ing ruin the lovers who dare not marry , though they know they never shall be happy without the mistresses whom they cannot pur- chase on other terms . that philanthropy , that love of mankind , which deserves ...
... nature as this , is not ing ruin the lovers who dare not marry , though they know they never shall be happy without the mistresses whom they cannot pur- chase on other terms . that philanthropy , that love of mankind , which deserves ...
Page 605
... nature where he describes a reality , and by add- ing greater beauties than are put together in nature , where he describes a fiction . If we consider , therefore , the nature of this pleasure , we shall find that it does not arise so ...
... nature where he describes a reality , and by add- ing greater beauties than are put together in nature , where he describes a fiction . If we consider , therefore , the nature of this pleasure , we shall find that it does not arise so ...
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