A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man, Volume 2George Bell & sons, 1876 |
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... able to contend against it , or to preserve its freedom , but at once determines to be guided by that alone . It must consequently be held that , in all ordinary cases , although a man is quite free to act according to the determina ...
... able to contend against it , or to preserve its freedom , but at once determines to be guided by that alone . It must consequently be held that , in all ordinary cases , although a man is quite free to act according to the determina ...
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... able in a state of nature to give vent to this appetite without committing sin , inasmuch as he may at once select an individual to whom he may be united for life , and with whom sexual intercourse may be lawful . In an artificial state ...
... able in a state of nature to give vent to this appetite without committing sin , inasmuch as he may at once select an individual to whom he may be united for life , and with whom sexual intercourse may be lawful . In an artificial state ...
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... able . We may therefore conclude that a feeling of indifference as to either the welfare or the misery of mankind , is that which pre- vails among men by nature ; or rather , would prevail in case their feelings were not influenced by ...
... able . We may therefore conclude that a feeling of indifference as to either the welfare or the misery of mankind , is that which pre- vails among men by nature ; or rather , would prevail in case their feelings were not influenced by ...
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... able at once to form an opinion as to its size , and shape , and general nature and adapta- tion . So is it also with regard to the moral constitution of man , that from the simplest and apparently most trivial circum- stances in the ...
... able at once to form an opinion as to its size , and shape , and general nature and adapta- tion . So is it also with regard to the moral constitution of man , that from the simplest and apparently most trivial circum- stances in the ...
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... able to face danger , knowing it to be danger ; and to approach it with a full knowledge of the power and the perils which he is about to encounter . Genuine bravery is alike and equally removed from cowardice on the one hand , and ...
... able to face danger , knowing it to be danger ; and to approach it with a full knowledge of the power and the perils which he is about to encounter . Genuine bravery is alike and equally removed from cowardice on the one hand , and ...
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Page 286 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 389 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.
Page 46 - How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.
Page 287 - Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 391 - How much the constitution of our bodies and the make of our animal spirits are concerned in this, and whether the temper of the brain makes this difference, that in some it retains the characters drawn on it like marble, in others like free-stone, and in others little better than sand...
Page 136 - Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief Priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
Page 35 - For the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Page 273 - For it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs, for universal ideas ; from which we have reason to imagine, that they have not the faculty of abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use of words or any other general signs.
Page 181 - I cannot doubt but that there is in me a certain passive faculty of perception, that is, of receiving and taking knowledge of the ideas of sensible things; but this would be useless to me, if there did not also exist in me, or in some other thing, another active faculty capable of forming and producing those ideas.
Page 131 - It is manifest, great part of common language, and of common behaviour over the world, is formed upon supposition of such a moral faculty ; whether called conscience, moral reason, moral sense, or divine reason ; whether considered as a sentiment of the understanding, or as a perception of the heart, or, which seems the truth, as including both.