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and immediate object : so that no exercise of love or kind affection to any one particular Being , that is but a small ... Though , from such a disposition may arise exercises of love to particular Beings , as objects are presented and ...
and immediate object : so that no exercise of love or kind affection to any one particular Being , that is but a small ... Though , from such a disposition may arise exercises of love to particular Beings , as objects are presented and ...
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If virtue be the beauty of an intelligent Being , and virtue consists in love , then it is a plain inconsistence , to suppose that virtue primarily consists in any love to its object for its beauty ; either in a love of complacence ...
If virtue be the beauty of an intelligent Being , and virtue consists in love , then it is a plain inconsistence , to suppose that virtue primarily consists in any love to its object for its beauty ; either in a love of complacence ...
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The first object of a virtuous benevolence is Being , simply considered : and if Being , simply considered , be its object , then Being in general is its object ; and the thing it has an ultimate propensity to , is the highest good of ...
The first object of a virtuous benevolence is Being , simply considered : and if Being , simply considered , be its object , then Being in general is its object ; and the thing it has an ultimate propensity to , is the highest good of ...
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Contents
The Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution | 3 |
WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 14 |
ANNE BRADSTREET 1612?1672 | 32 |
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| Title | The American Tradition in Literature: Bradford to Lincoln Norton book Volume 1 of The American Tradition in Literature, Richmond Croom Beatty |
| Editors | Sculley Bradley, Richmond Croom Beatty, Eugene Hudson Long |
| Compiled by | Sculley Bradley, Richmond Croom Beatty, Eugene Hudson Long |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Norton, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 3505 pages |
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