The Bible of Nature, and Substance of Virtue, Condensed from the Scriptures of Eminent Cosmians ...: Of Various Ages and ClimesC. Van Benthuysen, 1842 |
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... Moral Philosophy , Torrey's Moral Instructor , Branagan's Beau- ties of Philanthropy , the Spirit of Humanity , and Liberty , for more ample views of these respective topics . This compilation , chiefly from scarce and valuable works ...
... Moral Philosophy , Torrey's Moral Instructor , Branagan's Beau- ties of Philanthropy , the Spirit of Humanity , and Liberty , for more ample views of these respective topics . This compilation , chiefly from scarce and valuable works ...
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... moral sense and desires of virtue , no- thing is more necessary than to study the nature and ten- dency of human actions , and to extend our views to the whole species and to all sensitive natures , as far as they can be affected by our ...
... moral sense and desires of virtue , no- thing is more necessary than to study the nature and ten- dency of human actions , and to extend our views to the whole species and to all sensitive natures , as far as they can be affected by our ...
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... moral truth are as much found- ed in the nature of things , as those of mathematical truth ; and it is not a little less absurd to contradict the moral by our words or actions , than to deny the mathematical . We perceive the truth of ...
... moral truth are as much found- ed in the nature of things , as those of mathematical truth ; and it is not a little less absurd to contradict the moral by our words or actions , than to deny the mathematical . We perceive the truth of ...
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... Moral World , was extracted from a reprint in the same work , Vol . VIII . 1823 , of the pam- phlet written and printed in America , 1806 . The Philosophy of Nature , or Book of Good Sense , was translated and abridged from the French ...
... Moral World , was extracted from a reprint in the same work , Vol . VIII . 1823 , of the pam- phlet written and printed in America , 1806 . The Philosophy of Nature , or Book of Good Sense , was translated and abridged from the French ...
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... moral , the author had possession of the virtue of fortitude , which made him regard the dissolution of the body as ... moral temperament . There seemed to me to exist between the physical secre tions of the fluids that gave bodily ...
... moral , the author had possession of the virtue of fortitude , which made him regard the dissolution of the body as ... moral temperament . There seemed to me to exist between the physical secre tions of the fluids that gave bodily ...
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Strona 34 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
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Strona 23 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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