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Page 95
... means of ex- change a proper capital for setting more laborers to work in their respective occupations . What is true of two bodies of men applies to any number of bodies , however great the difference in their occu- pations ; and thus ...
... means of ex- change a proper capital for setting more laborers to work in their respective occupations . What is true of two bodies of men applies to any number of bodies , however great the difference in their occu- pations ; and thus ...
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... means by which this bent of study seems to have been created . At the period to which my present recollections refer , the art of reading was by no means diffused among the class in which I then moved , in the same degree as at present ...
... means by which this bent of study seems to have been created . At the period to which my present recollections refer , the art of reading was by no means diffused among the class in which I then moved , in the same degree as at present ...
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... means Lust ; the lion means Ambition or Pride ; and the she wolf is the emblem of Avarice . These three passions are those that most torment mankind , and stand in the way of that moral reform which it was the poet's object to promote ...
... means Lust ; the lion means Ambition or Pride ; and the she wolf is the emblem of Avarice . These three passions are those that most torment mankind , and stand in the way of that moral reform which it was the poet's object to promote ...
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DAY SUBJECT 119 Of Improving by good Examples | 5 |
Primitive Christians | 9 |
Summer | 14 |
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