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Page 37
... reason and virtue are always dealing in mysteries , though you laugh at them when the church makes them . I think he loves himself very well , and very judiciously too , as you call it , who allows himself to do whatever he pleases ...
... reason and virtue are always dealing in mysteries , though you laugh at them when the church makes them . I think he loves himself very well , and very judiciously too , as you call it , who allows himself to do whatever he pleases ...
Page 39
... reason , and had rather make a bold attack upon Providence ; the usual way of you gen- tlemen of fashion - who when , by living in defiance of the eternal rules of reason , you have plunged yourselves into a thousand difficulties ...
... reason , and had rather make a bold attack upon Providence ; the usual way of you gen- tlemen of fashion - who when , by living in defiance of the eternal rules of reason , you have plunged yourselves into a thousand difficulties ...
Page 40
... reason to laugh at it ; but if you take it as understood by philosophers and men of sense , you will presently see her charms , and fly to her embraces , notwithstanding her demure looks , as absolutely necessary to produce even your ...
... reason to laugh at it ; but if you take it as understood by philosophers and men of sense , you will presently see her charms , and fly to her embraces , notwithstanding her demure looks , as absolutely necessary to produce even your ...
Page 41
... reason of this philosophical self - denial . There can be no ab- solute perfection in any creature ; because every creature is derived from something of a superior existence , and dependent on that source for its own existence . No ...
... reason of this philosophical self - denial . There can be no ab- solute perfection in any creature ; because every creature is derived from something of a superior existence , and dependent on that source for its own existence . No ...
Page 42
... reason ; happy are they who can follow such divine guides . Phil . Horatio , good night ; I wish you wise in your pleasures . Hor , I wish , Philocles , I could be as wise in my pleasures as you are pleasantly wise : your wisdom is ...
... reason ; happy are they who can follow such divine guides . Phil . Horatio , good night ; I wish you wise in your pleasures . Hor , I wish , Philocles , I could be as wise in my pleasures as you are pleasantly wise : your wisdom is ...
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