Author of our nature gave us, as a ftimulus to remove the diftrefles of others, in order to get rid of our own uneafinefs. I would only obferve, that where not ftrengthened by fuperior motives, it is a cafual and precarious inftrument of good, and ceafes... Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society - Page 77 de Hannah More - 1789 - 134 pages Affichage du livre entier -
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