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Page 614
Chemistry and mineralogy are almost the sole objects of attention . Nay , the ruins of nature , the shattered relics of a former world , seems a more engaging object than the numberless beauties that now adorn the present surface of our ...
Chemistry and mineralogy are almost the sole objects of attention . Nay , the ruins of nature , the shattered relics of a former world , seems a more engaging object than the numberless beauties that now adorn the present surface of our ...
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The proper object of the piece may be best expressed in the author's words . ... and from the same direct motives , by which we are impelled to the pursuit of our own interest The objects in which the mind is interested may be either ...
The proper object of the piece may be best expressed in the author's words . ... and from the same direct motives , by which we are impelled to the pursuit of our own interest The objects in which the mind is interested may be either ...
Page 702
Supposing therefore that our most generous feelings and actions were equivocal , the object only bearing a shew of disinterestedness , the motive being always selfish , this would be no reason for rejecting the common use of the term ...
Supposing therefore that our most generous feelings and actions were equivocal , the object only bearing a shew of disinterestedness , the motive being always selfish , this would be no reason for rejecting the common use of the term ...
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| Title | The Eclectic Review, Volume 3; Volume 6, Part 2 |
| Editors | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood |
| Contributor | William Hendry Stowell |
| Publisher | C. Taylor, 1807 |
| Original from | UC Southern Regional Library Facility |
| Digitized | 31 Jul 2015 |
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