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Page 72
... feel our- felves particularly concerned , when a moral virtue or a focial obligation is fet before us , the practice of which is our indifpenfible duty : And , perhaps , we are more ready to obferve these instructions , or at least ...
... feel our- felves particularly concerned , when a moral virtue or a focial obligation is fet before us , the practice of which is our indifpenfible duty : And , perhaps , we are more ready to obferve these instructions , or at least ...
Page 81
... feeling . The butcher knocks down the stately ox with no more compaffion than the blacksmith hammers a horse - shoe ; and plunges his knife into the throat of the innocent lamb with as little reluctance as the taylor fticks his peedle ...
... feeling . The butcher knocks down the stately ox with no more compaffion than the blacksmith hammers a horse - shoe ; and plunges his knife into the throat of the innocent lamb with as little reluctance as the taylor fticks his peedle ...
Page 88
... feel themselves actuated by fome low and abject paffion . Thus if you cut off the top branches of a tree , and will not suffer it to grow higher , it will not there- fore ceafe to grow , but will quickly fhoot out at the bottom . The ...
... feel themselves actuated by fome low and abject paffion . Thus if you cut off the top branches of a tree , and will not suffer it to grow higher , it will not there- fore ceafe to grow , but will quickly fhoot out at the bottom . The ...
Page 103
... feeling have not omitted thofe which are due from masters to fervants . Nothing , indeed , can be more natural than the attachment and regard to which the faithful fer- vices of our domeftics are entitled ; the connection grows up ...
... feeling have not omitted thofe which are due from masters to fervants . Nothing , indeed , can be more natural than the attachment and regard to which the faithful fer- vices of our domeftics are entitled ; the connection grows up ...
Page 112
... feel its influ- ence . When he that has given no provocation to ma- lice , but by attempting to excel in fome useful art , finds himself purfued , by multitudes whom he never faw , with implacability of perfonal refentment ; when he ...
... feel its influ- ence . When he that has given no provocation to ma- lice , but by attempting to excel in fome useful art , finds himself purfued , by multitudes whom he never faw , with implacability of perfonal refentment ; when he ...
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