The Works of the Late Reverend Mr. Robert Riccaltoun, Minister of the Gospel at Hobkirk, Volume 1A. Murray & J. Cochran, 1771 |
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... materials of pleasure and pain , mast be carefully weighed ; and their feveral degrees of moment , one way or other , ex- actly adjusted . The frame and conftitu- tion of man must be narrowly examined , his capacity , and powers thence ...
... materials of pleasure and pain , mast be carefully weighed ; and their feveral degrees of moment , one way or other , ex- actly adjusted . The frame and conftitu- tion of man must be narrowly examined , his capacity , and powers thence ...
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... materials of pleasure , scattered as they are through the universe ; nay even of thofe which lie next to our hands , it is but a small pittance that can fall one's fhare . Hence , it may be prefu- med , philofophers and wife men came ...
... materials of pleasure , scattered as they are through the universe ; nay even of thofe which lie next to our hands , it is but a small pittance that can fall one's fhare . Hence , it may be prefu- med , philofophers and wife men came ...
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... materials for main- taining life and happiness to seek from without itself ; which , on the most cursory reflection , will be found to be the cafe of every creature whatsoever ; and there- fore , when we fpeak of perfection in any of ...
... materials for main- taining life and happiness to seek from without itself ; which , on the most cursory reflection , will be found to be the cafe of every creature whatsoever ; and there- fore , when we fpeak of perfection in any of ...
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... material bodies , more or lefs per- fect , and exert their operations in and by them . When we attempt to afcend high- er , our ideas and proper conceptions quite fail us ; and yet we cannot help imagi- ning there must be fomething ...
... material bodies , more or lefs per- fect , and exert their operations in and by them . When we attempt to afcend high- er , our ideas and proper conceptions quite fail us ; and yet we cannot help imagi- ning there must be fomething ...
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... materials : whence they conceived all the weaknesses and imperfections in the universe to take their rife , and to conti- nue without any remedy . How much more ́eafy and rational is it , in all refpects , for one formed as we are ...
... materials : whence they conceived all the weaknesses and imperfections in the universe to take their rife , and to conti- nue without any remedy . How much more ́eafy and rational is it , in all refpects , for one formed as we are ...
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