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... means to direct their activity for attaining pleasure and avoiding pain , but moreover chiefly and ultimately as a great means and engine for the promoting of moral good , i.e. , for the securing and engaging them to virtue in obedi ...
... means to direct their activity for attaining pleasure and avoiding pain , but moreover chiefly and ultimately as a great means and engine for the promoting of moral good , i.e. , for the securing and engaging them to virtue in obedi ...
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... means of producing it . And here our limits forbid us to enlarge ; yet we cannot pass it over in silence . A primary and essential means of the improvement of our literature is , that , as a people , we should feel its value , should ...
... means of producing it . And here our limits forbid us to enlarge ; yet we cannot pass it over in silence . A primary and essential means of the improvement of our literature is , that , as a people , we should feel its value , should ...
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... means . An aristocrat , therefore , is merely one who fortifies his exclusive privi- leges by positive institutions , and a democrat , one who is willing to admit of a free competition , in all things . To say , however , that the last ...
... means . An aristocrat , therefore , is merely one who fortifies his exclusive privi- leges by positive institutions , and a democrat , one who is willing to admit of a free competition , in all things . To say , however , that the last ...
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