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... luxury . Adieu , thou enchanting reasoner . A SECOND DIALOGUE BETWEEN PHILOCLES AND HORATIO , CONCERNING VIRTUE AND PLEASURE . From the Pennsylvania Gazette , No. 86 , July 9 , 1730 . Phil . DEAR Horatio , where hast thou been these ...
... luxury . Adieu , thou enchanting reasoner . A SECOND DIALOGUE BETWEEN PHILOCLES AND HORATIO , CONCERNING VIRTUE AND PLEASURE . From the Pennsylvania Gazette , No. 86 , July 9 , 1730 . Phil . DEAR Horatio , where hast thou been these ...
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... luxury : " .... exacto contentus tempore vitæ , Cedat ubi conviva satur- Lusisti satis , edisti satis atque bibisti ; Tempus abire tibi . " Which may be thus put into English : Life's but a feast ; and when we die , Horace would say ...
... luxury : " .... exacto contentus tempore vitæ , Cedat ubi conviva satur- Lusisti satis , edisti satis atque bibisti ; Tempus abire tibi . " Which may be thus put into English : Life's but a feast ; and when we die , Horace would say ...
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... luxury in rising , when they wake in a hot bed , and going into the cool one . Such shifting of beds would also be of great service to persons ill of a fever , as it refreshes and frequently procures sleep . A very large bed , that will ...
... luxury in rising , when they wake in a hot bed , and going into the cool one . Such shifting of beds would also be of great service to persons ill of a fever , as it refreshes and frequently procures sleep . A very large bed , that will ...
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... greater in cities , as luxury is more com- mon : many live single during life , and continue servants to families , journeymen to trades , & c . Hence cities do not , by natural generation , supply ESSAYS AND LETTERS ...
... greater in cities , as luxury is more com- mon : many live single during life , and continue servants to families , journeymen to trades , & c . Hence cities do not , by natural generation , supply ESSAYS AND LETTERS ...
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... luxuries ; and , educating their children in the habit of those luxuries , the same income is needed for the support of one that might have maintained one hundred . The whites , who hare slayes , not labouring , are enfeebled , and ...
... luxuries ; and , educating their children in the habit of those luxuries , the same income is needed for the support of one that might have maintained one hundred . The whites , who hare slayes , not labouring , are enfeebled , and ...
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