An Essay on the Best Means of Civilising the Subjects of the British Empire in India, and of Diffusing the Light of the Christian Religion Throughout the Eastern World |
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... morality , the institutes of their legislation ; and this is confined to one order of the com- munity , the Bramins ; and , among them , to one class , de- nominated Pundits . These sacred repositories of science are written in the ...
... morality , the institutes of their legislation ; and this is confined to one order of the com- munity , the Bramins ; and , among them , to one class , de- nominated Pundits . These sacred repositories of science are written in the ...
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... morality flowing from the heart , enlighten- ed by principle , and directed to high and pure ends . Many practices ... Morals . The manners of a people at once give to the laws their Legislation . character , and receive from them in ...
... morality flowing from the heart , enlighten- ed by principle , and directed to high and pure ends . Many practices ... Morals . The manners of a people at once give to the laws their Legislation . character , and receive from them in ...
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... studying the records of their own nation ; and their morals are by no means perfect , either in principle or in practice . Much , in short , we may infer , may yet be added to their political dignity , much to their social order , much 3 ...
... studying the records of their own nation ; and their morals are by no means perfect , either in principle or in practice . Much , in short , we may infer , may yet be added to their political dignity , much to their social order , much 3 ...
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... morals when duty is left to be regulated by circumstances ) the quicquid oportet depends occasionally upon the quicquid decet ; and , in the above , as in other instances , the tendency of the cli- mate to individual rule , the long ...
... morals when duty is left to be regulated by circumstances ) the quicquid oportet depends occasionally upon the quicquid decet ; and , in the above , as in other instances , the tendency of the cli- mate to individual rule , the long ...
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... Hotopades , or Amicable Instructor , ( a book of great cele- brity ) that his subjects might be improved by the lessons on science and on ethics which it contained . IX . We have reserved the consideration of Morals for 155.
... Hotopades , or Amicable Instructor , ( a book of great cele- brity ) that his subjects might be improved by the lessons on science and on ethics which it contained . IX . We have reserved the consideration of Morals for 155.
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