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Page 42
... ideas of pains and penalties , is a very natural one ; and there is , therefore a sufficient fund of persecution in mere ignorance , though the spirit of it were not , as it usually is , aggravated by degrading notions of the divine ...
... ideas of pains and penalties , is a very natural one ; and there is , therefore a sufficient fund of persecution in mere ignorance , though the spirit of it were not , as it usually is , aggravated by degrading notions of the divine ...
Page 51
... ideas and other feelings , that have often co - existed , acquire , forever after , an almost indissoluble union . It is not merely , therefore , by having traced , more accu- rately than others , the consequences of vice and virtue ...
... ideas and other feelings , that have often co - existed , acquire , forever after , an almost indissoluble union . It is not merely , therefore , by having traced , more accu- rately than others , the consequences of vice and virtue ...
Page 56
... ideas or other feelings in the minds of those with whom we are conversant , as will afford the most pleas- and averting , as much as possible , every idea which may lead to pain . It implies , therefore , when perfect , a fine knowl ...
... ideas or other feelings in the minds of those with whom we are conversant , as will afford the most pleas- and averting , as much as possible , every idea which may lead to pain . It implies , therefore , when perfect , a fine knowl ...
Page 83
... ideas or other feelings , involved in one complex thought or emo- tion , very nearly as we inquire into the corpuscular elements , that coexist in one seemingly continuous mass . The nature of this very wonderful application of analysis ...
... ideas or other feelings , involved in one complex thought or emo- tion , very nearly as we inquire into the corpuscular elements , that coexist in one seemingly continuous mass . The nature of this very wonderful application of analysis ...
Page 85
... ideas of the mechanical affections , we must be con- tent to be ignorant of their properties and ways of operation ; nor can we be assured about them any farther , than some few trials we make are able to reach . But whether they will ...
... ideas of the mechanical affections , we must be con- tent to be ignorant of their properties and ways of operation ; nor can we be assured about them any farther , than some few trials we make are able to reach . But whether they will ...
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