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... event is particular , the effect of fome for- mer event , and the cause of others that follow ; in fuch a chain , there is nothing to bias the mind from the order of nature . Widely different is fcience , when we endeavour to trace out ...
... event is particular , the effect of fome for- mer event , and the cause of others that follow ; in fuch a chain , there is nothing to bias the mind from the order of nature . Widely different is fcience , when we endeavour to trace out ...
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... : the reader is not prepa red for that important event : no cause is affigned that can make it appear neceffary , or even natural , Lin , 136 . • Lin 475 . to fufpend for so long a time the principal action Ch . I. 29 IN A TRAIN .
... : the reader is not prepa red for that important event : no cause is affigned that can make it appear neceffary , or even natural , Lin , 136 . • Lin 475 . to fufpend for so long a time the principal action Ch . I. 29 IN A TRAIN .
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... event ; for an action well intended gives pleasure , whatever the event be . Further , human actions are perceived to be right or wrong ; and that per- ception qualifies the pleasure or pain that refults . from them ' . In tracing our ...
... event ; for an action well intended gives pleasure , whatever the event be . Further , human actions are perceived to be right or wrong ; and that per- ception qualifies the pleasure or pain that refults . from them ' . In tracing our ...
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... events that depend not on us , as when I defire that my friend may have a fon to represent him , or that my country may flourish in arts and sciences : but fuch internal act is more 42 EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS . Ch . II . 195.
... events that depend not on us , as when I defire that my friend may have a fon to represent him , or that my country may flourish in arts and sciences : but fuch internal act is more 42 EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS . Ch . II . 195.
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... event extreinely uncer- tain , the object , however agreeable , feldom rai- feth any ftrong defire : thus beauty or any other good quality in a woman of rank , feldom raifes love in a man greatly her inferior . In the third place ...
... event extreinely uncer- tain , the object , however agreeable , feldom rai- feth any ftrong defire : thus beauty or any other good quality in a woman of rank , feldom raifes love in a man greatly her inferior . In the third place ...
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