The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3G. Bell, 1882 |
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... mankind , could not have entered into the imagination of a writer , who had not a soul filled with great ideas , and a general benevolence to mankind . In that celebrated passage of Sallust , where Cæsar and Cato are placed in such ...
... mankind , could not have entered into the imagination of a writer , who had not a soul filled with great ideas , and a general benevolence to mankind . In that celebrated passage of Sallust , where Cæsar and Cato are placed in such ...
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... mankind , which deserves the title of a moral virtue . The next way of a man's bringing his good - nature to the test , is to consider whether it operates according to the rules of reason and duty : for if , notwithstanding its general ...
... mankind , which deserves the title of a moral virtue . The next way of a man's bringing his good - nature to the test , is to consider whether it operates according to the rules of reason and duty : for if , notwithstanding its general ...
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... mankind : but when I find the instruments he works with are racks and gibbets , galleys and dungeons ; when he imprisons men's persons , confiscates their estates , ruins their families , and burns the body to save the soul ; I cannot ...
... mankind : but when I find the instruments he works with are racks and gibbets , galleys and dungeons ; when he imprisons men's persons , confiscates their estates , ruins their families , and burns the body to save the soul ; I cannot ...
Contents
THE SPECTATOR | 1 |
Account of SapphoHer Hymn to Venus 225 Discretion and Cunning | 109 |
Letter on the Lovers Leap 229 Fragment of Sappho | 115 |
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