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... nature is on this subject . All other claims of honour are ambulatory and changeable . The degrees of respect paid to external stations vary with forms of government , and fashions of the times . Qualities which in one country are ...
... nature is on this subject . All other claims of honour are ambulatory and changeable . The degrees of respect paid to external stations vary with forms of government , and fashions of the times . Qualities which in one country are ...
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... nature . Let him not rest on any of those external distinctions which vanity has con- trived to introduce . These can procure him no more than the semblance of re- spect . Let him not be flattered by the applause which some occasional ...
... nature . Let him not rest on any of those external distinctions which vanity has con- trived to introduce . These can procure him no more than the semblance of re- spect . Let him not be flattered by the applause which some occasional ...
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... nature of true sensibility . I shall consider its effects ; and , after shewing its advantages , shall point out the abuses and mistaken forms of this virtue . THE original constitution of our nature with respect to the mixture of ...
... nature of true sensibility . I shall consider its effects ; and , after shewing its advantages , shall point out the abuses and mistaken forms of this virtue . THE original constitution of our nature with respect to the mixture of ...
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... nature . In these multitudes , the self - love of one man , or attention to his particular interest , en- countering the self - love and the interests of another , could not but produce frequent opposition , and innumerable mischiefs ...
... nature . In these multitudes , the self - love of one man , or attention to his particular interest , en- countering the self - love and the interests of another , could not but produce frequent opposition , and innumerable mischiefs ...
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... nature the same happy delicacy , and tenderness of feeling . With some , the heart melts , and relents , in kind emotion , much more easily than with others . But with every one who aspires at the character of a good man , it is ...
... nature the same happy delicacy , and tenderness of feeling . With some , the heart melts , and relents , in kind emotion , much more easily than with others . But with every one who aspires at the character of a good man , it is ...
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