The Scots Magazine, Volume 49Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1787 - English literature |
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... feems to arife from the perception of rights common to all men , and is a tendency of the mind to abstain from the smallest violation of them . A man is faid to be innocent in common life , when he not only refifts every temp- tation ...
... feems to arife from the perception of rights common to all men , and is a tendency of the mind to abstain from the smallest violation of them . A man is faid to be innocent in common life , when he not only refifts every temp- tation ...
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... feems strange to obferve , that there are few , if any , in the world , who enjoy all the bleffings which are bestowed upon them , and make their fituation in life as happy as it might be . Where - ever the felfish paffions are indulged ...
... feems strange to obferve , that there are few , if any , in the world , who enjoy all the bleffings which are bestowed upon them , and make their fituation in life as happy as it might be . Where - ever the felfish paffions are indulged ...
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... feems too fevere to be supported , and nature almoft finks under the trial , let them anticipate the future time , and think with what fen- timents they fhall look back upon it ; think , if they can , what joy it will afford them to ...
... feems too fevere to be supported , and nature almoft finks under the trial , let them anticipate the future time , and think with what fen- timents they fhall look back upon it ; think , if they can , what joy it will afford them to ...
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... feems to go beyond examples . 5. Hatred to mankind fignifics a perpe- tual violation of their rights , accompa- nied with the moft malignant paffions . It feems to fum up all the preceding vices , infenfibility of heart , hardened by ...
... feems to go beyond examples . 5. Hatred to mankind fignifics a perpe- tual violation of their rights , accompa- nied with the moft malignant paffions . It feems to fum up all the preceding vices , infenfibility of heart , hardened by ...
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... feems alfo to have bequeathed to the Scottish a peculiarly wild horror , which frequently ftrikes the reader with the higheft effect . But the antique force and fimplicity of the language was the chief permanent gift of the Pictish ...
... feems alfo to have bequeathed to the Scottish a peculiarly wild horror , which frequently ftrikes the reader with the higheft effect . But the antique force and fimplicity of the language was the chief permanent gift of the Pictish ...
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