The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen9David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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... means of acquiring property , and offering them resources independent of the common good , we shall perceive how great was the wisdom of the legislators who banished them from their states . The Lacedæmonians were nothing else than ...
... means of acquiring property , and offering them resources independent of the common good , we shall perceive how great was the wisdom of the legislators who banished them from their states . The Lacedæmonians were nothing else than ...
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... means common , in burying in silence what strongly affects us . Yet prudence imposes on us a law almost equal , to conceal the secrets of others and our own violent feelings ; the passions mislead us to such a degree , that , blushing ...
... means common , in burying in silence what strongly affects us . Yet prudence imposes on us a law almost equal , to conceal the secrets of others and our own violent feelings ; the passions mislead us to such a degree , that , blushing ...
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... means of which each , coalescing with all , may , nevertheless , obey only himself and remain as free as before . " John Locke in England and Rousseau in France , gave the intel- lectual impulse to the movement which resulted in the two ...
... means of which each , coalescing with all , may , nevertheless , obey only himself and remain as free as before . " John Locke in England and Rousseau in France , gave the intel- lectual impulse to the movement which resulted in the two ...
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... means of self- preservation than to form by aggregation a sum of forces which may overcome the resistance , to put them in action by a single motive power , and to make them work in concert . The sum of forces can be produced only by ...
... means of self- preservation than to form by aggregation a sum of forces which may overcome the resistance , to put them in action by a single motive power , and to make them work in concert . The sum of forces can be produced only by ...
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... mean by that ? Are not habits contracted by mere force , which cannot be said , however , to stifle nature ? Such , for instance , is the habit of plants , constrained in their vertical direction . Restored to their liberty , they still ...
... mean by that ? Are not habits contracted by mere force , which cannot be said , however , to stifle nature ? Such , for instance , is the habit of plants , constrained in their vertical direction . Restored to their liberty , they still ...
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