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<head>Ins. Offences against Condition — Adultery</head> | |||
<p><note>Corrupts morals</note> these circumstances have a <del>national</del> <add>strong</add> and <add>almost</add> unavoidable<lb/> | |||
tendency to corrupt the heart; not by cherishing in<lb/> | |||
it <add><gap/></add> the love of pleasure, which corrupts no hearts,<lb/> | |||
but by cherishing in it the habits of treachery and<lb/> | |||
dissimulation. For a man who <del>under</del> is about<lb/> | |||
to seduce or even to yield to the <sic>sollicitations</sic> <add>meet the advances</add> of<lb/> | |||
the wife of his friend it is impossible to carry on<lb/> | |||
his projects with success without <del>possessing an acquiring</del><lb/> | |||
cherishing <add>cultivating</add> in himself desperations very unfavourable<lb/> | |||
to his own happiness and to those who<lb/> | |||
may have occasion to become connected with him.<lb/> | |||
In the first place he must steal his heartsprings<lb/> | |||
the prospect of the distress which such a proceeding<lb/> | |||
of <sic>discoverd</sic> must bring upon his friend and all his<lb/> | |||
family. In the next place to prevent discovery<lb/> | |||
he must possess or acquire the most perfect <add>consummate</add> habit<lb/> | |||
of dissimulation, lying, command of temper and<lb/> | |||
of countenance added to the most determined perseverance<lb/> | |||
in a bad cause. These <del>habits</del> <add>talents he</add> must <del>be</del><lb/> | |||
<del>the</del> inquire in a more consummate degree in proportion<lb/> | |||
to the sagacity, that is (as far as sagacity<lb/> | |||
is a virtue) in proportion to the sagacity of his<lb/> | |||
friend. By these accomplishments he is furnished<lb/> | |||
with the means and too much exposed to the temptation<lb/> | |||
of engaging in <add>such</add> courses which <add>as may be</add> are productive<lb/> | |||
of power and more obvious degrees of misery, and<lb/> | |||
stand obnoxious to a much more decided censure<lb/> | |||
from the moral sanction. <add>maxims of the world.</add> It <del>the</del> is the case with this<lb/> | |||
domestic as with political warfare, the ambition of <add>mutiny</add></p> | |||
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14 C
Ins. Offences against Condition — Adultery
Corrupts morals these circumstances have a national strong and almost unavoidable
tendency to corrupt the heart; not by cherishing in
it the love of pleasure, which corrupts no hearts,
but by cherishing in it the habits of treachery and
dissimulation. For a man who under is about
to seduce or even to yield to the sollicitations meet the advances of
the wife of his friend it is impossible to carry on
his projects with success without possessing an acquiring
cherishing cultivating in himself desperations very unfavourable
to his own happiness and to those who
may have occasion to become connected with him.
In the first place he must steal his heartsprings
the prospect of the distress which such a proceeding
of discoverd must bring upon his friend and all his
family. In the next place to prevent discovery
he must possess or acquire the most perfect consummate habit
of dissimulation, lying, command of temper and
of countenance added to the most determined perseverance
in a bad cause. These habits talents he must be
the inquire in a more consummate degree in proportion
to the sagacity, that is (as far as sagacity
is a virtue) in proportion to the sagacity of his
friend. By these accomplishments he is furnished
with the means and too much exposed to the temptation
of engaging in such courses which as may be are productive
of power and more obvious degrees of misery, and
stand obnoxious to a much more decided censure
from the moral sanction. maxims of the world. It the is the case with this
domestic as with political warfare, the ambition of mutiny
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