The Polite Philosopher (1734) [ Practices / Concepts ]
… through the intellectual Oeconomy, that the celestial Bodies diffuse over the material Part of the Creation. Without them, we might, indeed, Contend , Destroy , and Triumph over one another. Fraud and Force would divide the World between them, and we should pass our Lives, like Slaves, in continual Toil, without the Prospect of Pleasure or Relaxation. IT is the Conversation of Women that gives a proper Biass to our … the Ruggedness of our own Nature, and the Virtues we put on to make the better Figure in their Eyes, keep us in Humour with our selves. I speak it without Affectation or Vanity, that no Man has applied more assiduously than my self to the …
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