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... strict limit of * Dissertation on the Eloquence of the Ancients , appended to the fourth volume of his Speeches , p . 380 . VOL . VI . C official duty , and meddle with matters that did not Montrose and the Covenanters . 17.
... strict limit of * Dissertation on the Eloquence of the Ancients , appended to the fourth volume of his Speeches , p . 380 . VOL . VI . C official duty , and meddle with matters that did not Montrose and the Covenanters . 17.
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official duty , and meddle with matters that did not altogether belong to them . On the occasion in question , however , it is to be kept in view , that they felt themselves called upon to act as they did , in consequence of the danger ...
official duty , and meddle with matters that did not altogether belong to them . On the occasion in question , however , it is to be kept in view , that they felt themselves called upon to act as they did , in consequence of the danger ...
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... duty to disperse the clouds with which the breath of faction may have obscured the fair fame of the really noble and virtuous . There has always appeared to us something incongruous , and as it were , impossible , in the repre ...
... duty to disperse the clouds with which the breath of faction may have obscured the fair fame of the really noble and virtuous . There has always appeared to us something incongruous , and as it were , impossible , in the repre ...
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... duty . Happiness consists in the observance of duty . To the practice of virtue we require two things , -self - knowledge and self - control . The deity is the foundation of duty and of morals . He is discerned internally and externally ...
... duty . Happiness consists in the observance of duty . To the practice of virtue we require two things , -self - knowledge and self - control . The deity is the foundation of duty and of morals . He is discerned internally and externally ...
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... duty , that is , that we ought to act in such and such a way ; we cannot divest ourselves of the idea of responsibility . Wherever , therefore , these separate ele- ments concur , -a knowledge of how we ought to act , and an entire ...
... duty , that is , that we ought to act in such and such a way ; we cannot divest ourselves of the idea of responsibility . Wherever , therefore , these separate ele- ments concur , -a knowledge of how we ought to act , and an entire ...
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