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... increasing the burdens of the poor . In a state of nature , it is an invariable law , that a man's acquisitions are in proportion to his labours . In a state of artificial society , it is a law as constant and as in- variable , that ...
... increasing the burdens of the poor . In a state of nature , it is an invariable law , that a man's acquisitions are in proportion to his labours . In a state of artificial society , it is a law as constant and as in- variable , that ...
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... increasing its bulk , has , I am afraid , added to its faults ; so that , notwithstanding all my attention , it may stand in need of a yet greater share of indulgence than it required at its first appearance . They who are accustomed to ...
... increasing its bulk , has , I am afraid , added to its faults ; so that , notwithstanding all my attention , it may stand in need of a yet greater share of indulgence than it required at its first appearance . They who are accustomed to ...
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... increases this cause of grandeur , as it excludes the idea of art and contrivance ; for dexterity produces another sort of effect , which is dif ferent enough from this . 1 SECT . XIII . - MAGNIFICENCE . Magnificence is likewise a ...
... increases this cause of grandeur , as it excludes the idea of art and contrivance ; for dexterity produces another sort of effect , which is dif ferent enough from this . 1 SECT . XIII . - MAGNIFICENCE . Magnificence is likewise a ...
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... increases our terror , more perhaps than anything else ; it is our nature , when we do not know what may happen to us , to fear the worst that can happen ; and hence it is , that uncer- tainty is so terrible , that we often seek to be ...
... increases our terror , more perhaps than anything else ; it is our nature , when we do not know what may happen to us , to fear the worst that can happen ; and hence it is , that uncer- tainty is so terrible , that we often seek to be ...
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... increasing insensibly to the middle , from whence it lessens gradually until it mixes with the neck ; the neck loses itself in a larger swell , which continues to the middle of the body , when the whole decreases again to the tail ; the ...
... increasing insensibly to the middle , from whence it lessens gradually until it mixes with the neck ; the neck loses itself in a larger swell , which continues to the middle of the body , when the whole decreases again to the tail ; the ...
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