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It is the consequences, therefore, of all human actions that must stamp their value
. So far as the general practice of any action tends to produce good, and
introduce happiness into the world, so far we may pronounce it virtuous ; so much
Evil ...
It is the consequences, therefore, of all human actions that must stamp their value
. So far as the general practice of any action tends to produce good, and
introduce happiness into the world, so far we may pronounce it virtuous ; so much
Evil ...
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... their rewards and punishments are woven as it were in their very essence; their
immediate effects give us a foretaste of their future, and their fruits in the present
life are the proper samples of what they must unavoidably produce in another.
... their rewards and punishments are woven as it were in their very essence; their
immediate effects give us a foretaste of their future, and their fruits in the present
life are the proper samples of what they must unavoidably produce in another.
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use and importance, that it would produce many advantages in peace, and in war
would make us masters of the South Sea. Scarcely any degree of judgment is
sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long ...
use and importance, that it would produce many advantages in peace, and in war
would make us masters of the South Sea. Scarcely any degree of judgment is
sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long ...
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These channels, which seem so much wider than the water that they convey
would naturally require, are formed by the violence of wintry floods, produced by
the accumulation of innumerable streams that fall in rainy weather from the hills,
and ...
These channels, which seem so much wider than the water that they convey
would naturally require, are formed by the violence of wintry floods, produced by
the accumulation of innumerable streams that fall in rainy weather from the hills,
and ...
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... of condemn ing the lower orders of the community to sacrifice a little luxury to
convenience, or at most a little convenience to necessity. But where the climate is
unkind, and the ground penurious, so that the most fruitful years produce only ...
... of condemn ing the lower orders of the community to sacrifice a little luxury to
convenience, or at most a little convenience to necessity. But where the climate is
unkind, and the ground penurious, so that the most fruitful years produce only ...
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