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... Nature is orderly in all her works ; but this is a mode of government that counteracts nature . It turns the progress of the human faculties upside down . It subjects age to be governed by children , and wisdom by folly . On the ...
... Nature is orderly in all her works ; but this is a mode of government that counteracts nature . It turns the progress of the human faculties upside down . It subjects age to be governed by children , and wisdom by folly . On the ...
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... nature , self - interest ; can it want a stronger allure- ment ? Wives and children , who before in vain demanded of him a morsel of bread , now , fat and frolicsome , gladly help their father to clear those fields whence exuberant ...
... nature , self - interest ; can it want a stronger allure- ment ? Wives and children , who before in vain demanded of him a morsel of bread , now , fat and frolicsome , gladly help their father to clear those fields whence exuberant ...
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... nature's scene . Perfections of the great first cause Submit to no contracted laws , But all - sufficient , all - supreme , Include no trivial views in them . Who looks through nature with an eye That would the scheme of heaven descry ...
... nature's scene . Perfections of the great first cause Submit to no contracted laws , But all - sufficient , all - supreme , Include no trivial views in them . Who looks through nature with an eye That would the scheme of heaven descry ...
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THE MAKING OF THE REPUBLIC | 1 |
from History of the American Revolu | 55 |
from Letters on Various | 94 |
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