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... thought of rendering an opinion on a trivial matter of textual criticism without having previously spent days over original manuscripts , will unhesitatingly assume to be able to dispense the most irrefragable information and advice ...
... thought of rendering an opinion on a trivial matter of textual criticism without having previously spent days over original manuscripts , will unhesitatingly assume to be able to dispense the most irrefragable information and advice ...
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... thought of sex relations . In relation to sex , the vast majority of hy- giene lectures in the average college are comparable to conducting a school of domestic economy with the lec- tures solely devoted to the discomforts and pathology ...
... thought of sex relations . In relation to sex , the vast majority of hy- giene lectures in the average college are comparable to conducting a school of domestic economy with the lec- tures solely devoted to the discomforts and pathology ...
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... thoughts , " of a " witch's rompe " that had as a grotesque appendage “ a foxe's taile , with dong all fowly dight , " and of " wanton lust " and " lewd embracement . " John Heywood , the dram- atist who bridged the way from the ...
... thoughts , " of a " witch's rompe " that had as a grotesque appendage “ a foxe's taile , with dong all fowly dight , " and of " wanton lust " and " lewd embracement . " John Heywood , the dram- atist who bridged the way from the ...
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... thought that the new economics and the new morality were accepted without protest . Lu- ther , exposing the growing individualism of his time in his revolt against authority , nevertheless , opposed the usurious tendencies of the ...
... thought that the new economics and the new morality were accepted without protest . Lu- ther , exposing the growing individualism of his time in his revolt against authority , nevertheless , opposed the usurious tendencies of the ...
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... thought and ac- tion ? An aristocracy from the nature of its life , liv- ing without labor and thriving upon the toil of others , would evolve a class psychology of loose and extrava- gant type . Parsimony and thrift are virtues that ...
... thought and ac- tion ? An aristocracy from the nature of its life , liv- ing without labor and thriving upon the toil of others , would evolve a class psychology of loose and extrava- gant type . Parsimony and thrift are virtues that ...
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Page 130 - this fundamental is most strictly adhered to: there is not a wicked action in any part of it, but is first or last rendered unhappy and unfortunate; there is not a superlative villain brought upon the stage, but either he is brought to an unhappy end, or brought to be a penitent...
Page 156 - By this wise provision [of the Creator], namely of making the passion of self-love beyond comparison stronger than the passion of benevolence, the more ignorant are led to pursue the general happiness, an end which they would have totally failed to attain if the moving principle of their conduct had been benevolence.