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Page 182
... according to which all pleasure , since it cannot be equally felt by all sensitive beings , ought to be distributed by a voluntary agent , [ are ] reserved for [ a separate ] chapter . The design of this little treatise is re- stricted ...
... according to which all pleasure , since it cannot be equally felt by all sensitive beings , ought to be distributed by a voluntary agent , [ are ] reserved for [ a separate ] chapter . The design of this little treatise is re- stricted ...
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... According to Jesus Christ , God is neither the Jupiter who sends rain upon the earth , nor the Venus through whom all living things are produced , nor the Vulcan who presides over the terrestrial element of fire , nor the Vesta that ...
... According to Jesus Christ , God is neither the Jupiter who sends rain upon the earth , nor the Venus through whom all living things are produced , nor the Vulcan who presides over the terrestrial element of fire , nor the Vesta that ...
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... according to the laws of epic truth ; that is , according to the laws of that principle by which series of actions of the external universe and of intelligent and ethical beings is calculated to excite the sympathy of succeeding genera ...
... according to the laws of epic truth ; that is , according to the laws of that principle by which series of actions of the external universe and of intelligent and ethical beings is calculated to excite the sympathy of succeeding genera ...
Contents
THE GROWTH OF SHELLEYS MIND | 3 |
PROPOSALS FOR AN ASSOCIATION | 169 |
I WILL BEGET A SON | 216 |
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action Age of Reason ancient Greece animals assert beauty believe benevolence Catholic Emancipation cause character Christian religion Christianity civilized conception considered crime death Defence of Poetry degree deist Deity Devil divine doctrines earth effect equal Essay eternal evil existence expression feel fragment Godwin Greeks habits happiness heart Holbach human mind Hume Hume's idea imagination institutions Jesus Christ justice labor letter liberty live Lord Lord Bacon Lord Ellenborough mankind Mary Shelley means ment misery moral nation nature Necessity Necessity of Atheism never Note to Queen object opinion pain Paine's paragraph passion perfect person philosophers Plato pleasure poem poet poetry political possess principles produce punishment Queen Mab reason reform Refutation of Deism sense sentiments Shelley Shelley's Note social society sophisms soul Spinoza spirit superstition suppose sympathy things thought tion true truth tyranny tyrants universe virtue wisdom words