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... moral philosophy at ยท Glasgow from 1752 to 1763 but an Edinburgh resident from 1777 , published his Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759 and his Wealth of Nations in 1776. And this is only a microcosm of a much longer catalogue . In 1754 ...
... moral philosophy at ยท Glasgow from 1752 to 1763 but an Edinburgh resident from 1777 , published his Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759 and his Wealth of Nations in 1776. And this is only a microcosm of a much longer catalogue . In 1754 ...
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... morality , but to such a poem as the ' Epistle to a Young Friend ' , one of the most engaging and spontaneous of his ... moral belief , without the slightest suggestion of exhibitionism or attitudinizing . The poem is of further interest ...
... morality , but to such a poem as the ' Epistle to a Young Friend ' , one of the most engaging and spontaneous of his ... moral belief , without the slightest suggestion of exhibitionism or attitudinizing . The poem is of further interest ...
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... moral grounds , though of course the eighteenth - century believers in the ' moral sense ' would not have seen any real difference between the two . At this point in the poem there is a stanza in the manuscript which Burns omitted from ...
... moral grounds , though of course the eighteenth - century believers in the ' moral sense ' would not have seen any real difference between the two . At this point in the poem there is a stanza in the manuscript which Burns omitted from ...
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