Essays on suicide and the immortality of the soul. With remarks by the editor. To which are added two letters on suicide, from Rousseau's Eloisa. [Followed by] On the immortality of the soul, and a future state, by mr. Addison1799 |
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... providence of the Deity appears not immediately in any operation , but governs every thing by thofe general and im- mutable laws , which have been established from the beginning of time . All events , in one fense , may be pronounced ...
... providence of the Deity appears not immediately in any operation , but governs every thing by thofe general and im- mutable laws , which have been established from the beginning of time . All events , in one fense , may be pronounced ...
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... providence , more than one deftroyed by the hands of men ; nor are the human faculties lefs his workmanship , than the laws of motion and gravitation . When the paflions play , when the judgment dictates , when the limbs obey ; this is ...
... providence , more than one deftroyed by the hands of men ; nor are the human faculties lefs his workmanship , than the laws of motion and gravitation . When the paflions play , when the judgment dictates , when the limbs obey ; this is ...
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... Providence , and disturbing the order of the univerfe ? Shall we affert that the Almighty has reserved to himself in any peculiar manner the disposal of the lives of men , and has not submitted that event in common with others , to the ...
... Providence , and disturbing the order of the univerfe ? Shall we affert that the Almighty has reserved to himself in any peculiar manner the disposal of the lives of men , and has not submitted that event in common with others , to the ...
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... Providence or curfe my creation , because I go out of life , and put a period to a being , which , were it to continue , would render me miferable ? Far be such fentiments from me ; I am only convinced of a matter of fact , which you ...
... Providence or curfe my creation , because I go out of life , and put a period to a being , which , were it to continue , would render me miferable ? Far be such fentiments from me ; I am only convinced of a matter of fact , which you ...
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... providence , in every calamity that befals me , excludes not human fkill and induftry , if poffible by their means I can avoid or efcape the calamity ; And why may I not employ one remedy as well as another ? - If my life be not my own ...
... providence , in every calamity that befals me , excludes not human fkill and induftry , if poffible by their means I can avoid or efcape the calamity ; And why may I not employ one remedy as well as another ? - If my life be not my own ...
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Page 111 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 113 - ... is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Page 77 - But can we believe a thinking being, that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries?
Page 115 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Page 77 - Being, whose justice, goodness, wisdom, and veracity, are all concerned in this great point. But among these and other excellent arguments for the immortality of the soul, there is one drawn from the perpetual progress...
Page 80 - With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhausted sources of perfection ? We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart of man to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for him.
Page 77 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass in a few years ; he has all the endowments he is capable of, and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Page 79 - Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted? capacities that are never to be gratified?
Page 98 - ... as it generally happens, that virtue would make us more happy even in this life than a contrary...
Page 111 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...