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... observe , with hu- miliating sympathy , a debasement of his species , in the most astonishing , unprincipled , and unparalleled arro- gance , to the last , of such a contemp- tuous , self - opinionated , ill - informed writer . His ...
... observe , with hu- miliating sympathy , a debasement of his species , in the most astonishing , unprincipled , and unparalleled arro- gance , to the last , of such a contemp- tuous , self - opinionated , ill - informed writer . His ...
Page 29
... observed , till the morning of the 8th . " Such conduct , under usual circumstances , I conceive absolutely unaccountable , though with diffidence I would remark , not so much so in the present instance ; for though the first necessary ...
... observed , till the morning of the 8th . " Such conduct , under usual circumstances , I conceive absolutely unaccountable , though with diffidence I would remark , not so much so in the present instance ; for though the first necessary ...
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... Observations on the character and example of Christ " were added , with an Appendix on the Morality of the Gospel ; " both from Mr. Paley's pen . From a passage in this little essay it ap- pears , that his theory of morals was not then ...
... Observations on the character and example of Christ " were added , with an Appendix on the Morality of the Gospel ; " both from Mr. Paley's pen . From a passage in this little essay it ap- pears , that his theory of morals was not then ...
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... observations he was incessantly making , and in giving them to the pub- lic . He had , however , scarcely begun to publish his " Spicilegia Zoologica , " before he was invited by the em- press Catharine II . to accept of the ...
... observations he was incessantly making , and in giving them to the pub- lic . He had , however , scarcely begun to publish his " Spicilegia Zoologica , " before he was invited by the em- press Catharine II . to accept of the ...
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... observe the transit of Venus over the sun's disk in 1769. Being just returned from a voyage down the Volga , and from visiting the interior provinces of European Russia , she had perceived the deficiencies of the topographical and ...
... observe the transit of Venus over the sun's disk in 1769. Being just returned from a voyage down the Volga , and from visiting the interior provinces of European Russia , she had perceived the deficiencies of the topographical and ...
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