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... body , and with great pomp . Those who searched in them for new discoveries in the mysteries of na- ture ; those who expected something which might explain or direct the operations of the mind ; those who hoped to see morality ...
... body , and with great pomp . Those who searched in them for new discoveries in the mysteries of na- ture ; those who expected something which might explain or direct the operations of the mind ; those who hoped to see morality ...
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... bodies to the government of our understanding ; but enough has not been said upon the restraint which our bodily neces- sities ought to lay on the extravagant sublimities and eccen- tric rovings of our minds . The body , or , as some ...
... bodies to the government of our understanding ; but enough has not been said upon the restraint which our bodily neces- sities ought to lay on the extravagant sublimities and eccen- tric rovings of our minds . The body , or , as some ...
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... body politic . And as nature has formed no bond of union to hold them together , he supplied this defect by laws . This is political society . And hence the sources of what are usually called states , civil societies , or governments ...
... body politic . And as nature has formed no bond of union to hold them together , he supplied this defect by laws . This is political society . And hence the sources of what are usually called states , civil societies , or governments ...
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... bodies as an army of 300,000 men . You will find every page of its history dyed in blood , and blotted and con- founded by tumults , rebellions , massacres , assassinations , proscriptions , and a series of horror beyond the histories ...
... bodies as an army of 300,000 men . You will find every page of its history dyed in blood , and blotted and con- founded by tumults , rebellions , massacres , assassinations , proscriptions , and a series of horror beyond the histories ...
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... body politic is not influenced by caprice or whim ; it proceeds in a regular manner ; its succession is insensible ; and every man , as he enters it , either has , or soon attains , the spirit of the whole body . Never was it known ...
... body politic is not influenced by caprice or whim ; it proceeds in a regular manner ; its succession is insensible ; and every man , as he enters it , either has , or soon attains , the spirit of the whole body . Never was it known ...
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