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... truth is , that it is only the vices of men that make such people necessary , and they have no other right of being kings but in virtue of the good they do . 9 The benefit of the governed is the origin and meaning of government . The ...
... truth is , that it is only the vices of men that make such people necessary , and they have no other right of being kings but in virtue of the good they do . 9 The benefit of the governed is the origin and meaning of government . The ...
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... truth , but not the whole truth . This might have arisen from the terrible sufferings of their country- men inviting them rather to apply a portion of what had already been discovered to their immediate relief than to pursue one ...
... truth , but not the whole truth . This might have arisen from the terrible sufferings of their country- men inviting them rather to apply a portion of what had already been discovered to their immediate relief than to pursue one ...
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... truth of things than those who have omitted that form . Shakespeare , Dante , and Milton ( to confine ourselves to modern writers ) are philosophers of the very loftiest power . A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal ...
... truth of things than those who have omitted that form . Shakespeare , Dante , and Milton ( to confine ourselves to modern writers ) are philosophers of the very loftiest power . A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal ...
Contents
ESSAY ON | 9 |
THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM | 37 |
PROPOSALS FOR AN ASSOCIATION | 60 |
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