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Excerpt from The Dignity of Human Nature, or a Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence, Vol. 1: In Four Books That a genius inferior only to a Shakspear or a Milton, should not be able to keep a coat to his back, to save him self from starving amidst his poetic fire, at the same time that an honest citizen whose utmost reach of thought only enables him to fix a reasonable profit upon a pi...

Excerpt from Thoughts on Education: Tending Chiefly to Recommend to the Attention of the Public, Some Particulars Relating to That Subject, Which Are Not Generally Considered With the Regard Their Importance Deserves Confider his own @alifications for doing any thing to avert or mitigate the judgments of Heaven, as the Need there is that fomething be done, and will accordingly contribute his mite, and exert his abi hties, fuch as they are. To...

Excerpt from The Dignity of Human Nature, or a Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence: In Four Books, I. Of Prudence, II. Of Knowledge, III. Of Virtue, IV. Of Revealed Religion II. Knowledge, or the improvement and enlarge ment of the faculties of the mind, as underiiand ing, memory, and imagination. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classi...

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Excerpt from The Dignity of Human Nature, Vol. 1 of 4: Or a Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence, in Four Books Were the subject of the following sheets treated in a manner suitable to its importance, the work would make an offering worthy of a Princess, whose character and conduct exhibit so fair a pattern of the Dignity of Human Nature. The gracious condescension voluntarily shown to...

Excerpt from Political Disquisitions, Vol. 1: Or an Enquiry Into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses Ever since I have been of age to distinguish between good and evil, I have observed, that, in this blessed country of ours, the men in power have pursued one uniform track of taxing and corrupting the people, and increasing court-influence in parliament, while the pretended patriots have exclaimed against those measures, at least till themselve...

Excerpt from Political Disquisitions, Vol. 2: Or an Enquiry Into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses I shall, perhaps, be accused of deviating towards superstition, if I observe, that the favourable reception given by the public to the former volume of these collections has the appearance of good omen, that the people will at last direct their attention to the important subjects treated in them, and to the fearful and alarming condition, into ...

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th cent...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...