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... interest or good ; but our interest or good being constituted by nature , and supposed , self - love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it . Therefore , if it be possible that self- love may prevail and exert itself in a degree or ...
... interest or good ; but our interest or good being constituted by nature , and supposed , self - love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it . Therefore , if it be possible that self- love may prevail and exert itself in a degree or ...
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... interest , or good . This , there- fore , is not a particular affection or particular pursuit , but it is the general principle of self - love and the general pursuit of our own interest ; for which reason the word selfish is by every ...
... interest , or good . This , there- fore , is not a particular affection or particular pursuit , but it is the general principle of self - love and the general pursuit of our own interest ; for which reason the word selfish is by every ...
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... interest , than between private interest and benevolence . For nothing is more common than to see men give themselves up to a passion or an affection to their known prejudice and ruin , and in direct contradiction to manifest and real ...
... interest , than between private interest and benevolence . For nothing is more common than to see men give themselves up to a passion or an affection to their known prejudice and ruin , and in direct contradiction to manifest and real ...
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DAY SUBJECT 119 Of Improving by good Examples | 5 |
Primitive Christians | 9 |
Summer | 14 |
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