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... misery , and end in being a difgrace to their friends , and a burden on fociety . Early , then , you may learn that it is not on the external condition in which you find yourselves placed , but on the part which you are to act , that ...
... misery , and end in being a difgrace to their friends , and a burden on fociety . Early , then , you may learn that it is not on the external condition in which you find yourselves placed , but on the part which you are to act , that ...
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... misery . But can we believe , that the nature of man came forth in this state from the hands of its gracious Crea- tor ? Did he frame this world , and store it with inha- bitants , folely that it might be replenished with crimes and ...
... misery . But can we believe , that the nature of man came forth in this state from the hands of its gracious Crea- tor ? Did he frame this world , and store it with inha- bitants , folely that it might be replenished with crimes and ...
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... misery of human life might be extinguifhed , would men alleviate the general curfe they lie under , by mutual offices of compaffion , benevolence , and hu- manity . There is nothing therefore which we ought more to encourage in ...
... misery of human life might be extinguifhed , would men alleviate the general curfe they lie under , by mutual offices of compaffion , benevolence , and hu- manity . There is nothing therefore which we ought more to encourage in ...
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... misery of his fituation , yet he is loft to all fincere enjoyment ; and if he fall not a victim to def- pair , furvives only to gain a precarious existence at the gaming - table , to deceive the unwary , and to elude the researches of ...
... misery of his fituation , yet he is loft to all fincere enjoyment ; and if he fall not a victim to def- pair , furvives only to gain a precarious existence at the gaming - table , to deceive the unwary , and to elude the researches of ...
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... misery through the walks of pri- vate life ; and , by introducing luxury , licentioufness , indolence , and corruption , has at once deftroyed all that can render human nature dignified and happy , and pre- cipitated the decline and the ...
... misery through the walks of pri- vate life ; and , by introducing luxury , licentioufness , indolence , and corruption , has at once deftroyed all that can render human nature dignified and happy , and pre- cipitated the decline and the ...
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