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Page 136
... existence it had brought me ; the social round , the grand dinners at the houses of the great , the brilliant balls and the week - end parties at country houses ; the company of clever and brilliant people , writers , painters , actors ...
... existence it had brought me ; the social round , the grand dinners at the houses of the great , the brilliant balls and the week - end parties at country houses ; the company of clever and brilliant people , writers , painters , actors ...
Page 187
... existence , and the effort to do better would be less difficult too when there was the hope than in another existence a greater happiness would reward one . But if one feels one's own woes in a more forcible way than those of others ( I ...
... existence , and the effort to do better would be less difficult too when there was the hope than in another existence a greater happiness would reward one . But if one feels one's own woes in a more forcible way than those of others ( I ...
Page 190
... existence of God , and I will ask the reader to have patience with me while I briefly consider them . One of them assumes that man has an idea of a perfect being ; and since perfection includes existence a perfect being must exist ...
... existence of God , and I will ask the reader to have patience with me while I briefly consider them . One of them assumes that man has an idea of a perfect being ; and since perfection includes existence a perfect being must exist ...
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