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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... whole will be no greater than betwixt my being in a chamber and in the open air . The one change is of more importance to me than the other ; but not more fo to the universe . -- ' Tis a kind of blafphemy to imagine that any created ...
... whole will be no greater than betwixt my being in a chamber and in the open air . The one change is of more importance to me than the other ; but not more fo to the universe . -- ' Tis a kind of blafphemy to imagine that any created ...
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... whole scope and intention of man's creation , so far as we can judge by natural reason , is limited to the prefent life . With how weak a concern from the original inherent ftructure of the mind and paflions , does he ever look farther ...
... whole scope and intention of man's creation , so far as we can judge by natural reason , is limited to the prefent life . With how weak a concern from the original inherent ftructure of the mind and paflions , does he ever look farther ...
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... whole time , his whole capacity , activity , courage , and paffion , find fufficient employment in fencing against the miseries of his present con- dition , and frequently , nay almost always are too flender for the bufinefs affigned ...
... whole time , his whole capacity , activity , courage , and paffion , find fufficient employment in fencing against the miseries of his present con- dition , and frequently , nay almost always are too flender for the bufinefs affigned ...
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... whole scene is closed . Punishment , accor- ding to our conception , should bear fome pro- portion to the offence . Why then eternal punish- ment for the temporary offences of fo frail a creature as man ? Can any one approve of Alex ...
... whole scene is closed . Punishment , accor- ding to our conception , should bear fome pro- portion to the offence . Why then eternal punish- ment for the temporary offences of fo frail a creature as man ? Can any one approve of Alex ...
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... whole nation because they had feized his favorite horse Bucephalus ? * Heaven and Hell fuppofe two diftinct fpecies of men , the good and the bad ; but the greatest part of mankind floats betwixt vice and virtue . -Were one to go round ...
... whole nation because they had feized his favorite horse Bucephalus ? * Heaven and Hell fuppofe two diftinct fpecies of men , the good and the bad ; but the greatest part of mankind floats betwixt vice and virtue . -Were one to go round ...
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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...