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He would feel the uneasiness of a heart whose most urgent desire was left without its object . It is thus that anterior to the knowledge of the giver , and far anterior to the full certainty of him — the moralities which spring from the ...
He would feel the uneasiness of a heart whose most urgent desire was left without its object . It is thus that anterior to the knowledge of the giver , and far anterior to the full certainty of him — the moralities which spring from the ...
Page 290
Again , that a feeling of kindness in the heart should be followed up by a feeling of complacency in the heart , that in every virtuous affection of the soul there should be so much to gladden and harmonize it , that there should always ...
Again , that a feeling of kindness in the heart should be followed up by a feeling of complacency in the heart , that in every virtuous affection of the soul there should be so much to gladden and harmonize it , that there should always ...
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Yet it is no less true , that , did the former affections bear supreme rule in the heart , they would brighten and tranquillize the whole of human existence — whereas , had the latter the entire and practical ascendancy , they would ...
Yet it is no less true , that , did the former affections bear supreme rule in the heart , they would brighten and tranquillize the whole of human existence — whereas , had the latter the entire and practical ascendancy , they would ...
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PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
on the side of Theism | 121 |
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