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... feeling of the effects of political society . I charge the whole of these effects on political society . I avow the charge , and I shall presently make it good to your Lordship's satisfaction . The numbers I par- ticularized are about ...
... feeling of the effects of political society . I charge the whole of these effects on political society . I avow the charge , and I shall presently make it good to your Lordship's satisfaction . The numbers I par- ticularized are about ...
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... feeling ; the weight of tyranny , at last , be- comes insupportable ; but the remedy is not so easy : in general , the only remedy by which they attempt to cure the tyranny , is to change the tyrant . This is , and always was , the case ...
... feeling ; the weight of tyranny , at last , be- comes insupportable ; but the remedy is not so easy : in general , the only remedy by which they attempt to cure the tyranny , is to change the tyrant . This is , and always was , the case ...
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... feeling . However , the fruitful policy of man was not yet exhausted . He had yet another farthing - candle to supply the deficiencies of the sun . This was the third form , known by political writers under the name of democracy . Here ...
... feeling . However , the fruitful policy of man was not yet exhausted . He had yet another farthing - candle to supply the deficiencies of the sun . This was the third form , known by political writers under the name of democracy . Here ...
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... feel it in all its energy , on the same prin- ciple which made him an admirer of Don Bellianis . In his favourite author he is not shocked with the con- tinual breaches of probability , the confusion of times , the offences against ...
... feel it in all its energy , on the same prin- ciple which made him an admirer of Don Bellianis . In his favourite author he is not shocked with the con- tinual breaches of probability , the confusion of times , the offences against ...
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... feel any actual pleasure , I have no reason to judge that any such thing exists ; since pleasure is only pleasure as it is felt . The same may be said of pain , and with equal reason . I can never persuade myself that pleasure and pain ...
... feel any actual pleasure , I have no reason to judge that any such thing exists ; since pleasure is only pleasure as it is felt . The same may be said of pain , and with equal reason . I can never persuade myself that pleasure and pain ...
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