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... happiness of your natures , it must be by the exercise of those fa- culties which are peculiar to you as men . If you have no higher object than the gratification of your animal appetites and paffions , you rank your- felves with the ...
... happiness of your natures , it must be by the exercise of those fa- culties which are peculiar to you as men . If you have no higher object than the gratification of your animal appetites and paffions , you rank your- felves with the ...
Page xv
... happier beings than we could be without fuch knowledge ; and even the confideration of the infuperable diffi- culties referred to above is not without its ufe , as it tends to imprefs the mind ' with with fentiments of reverence ...
... happier beings than we could be without fuch knowledge ; and even the confideration of the infuperable diffi- culties referred to above is not without its ufe , as it tends to imprefs the mind ' with with fentiments of reverence ...
Page xxiii
... happiness of that early period of life ; and in fome inftances , I doubt not , the exceffive restraints they were un- der might serve to inflame their passions , and prepare them for the more unbound- ed and criminal indulgence of them ...
... happiness of that early period of life ; and in fome inftances , I doubt not , the exceffive restraints they were un- der might serve to inflame their passions , and prepare them for the more unbound- ed and criminal indulgence of them ...
Page xxiv
... happiness through life . Our youth having had lit- tle or no restraint put upon their inclina- tions , and religious principles not having been fufficiently inculcated , they give the reins to pleasure , at that critical time of life ...
... happiness through life . Our youth having had lit- tle or no restraint put upon their inclina- tions , and religious principles not having been fufficiently inculcated , they give the reins to pleasure , at that critical time of life ...
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Joseph Priestley. له the most nearly connected with our pre- sent and future happiness . If there be a God , and if we be account- able to him for our conduct , it must be highly interefling to us to know all that we can concerning his ...
Joseph Priestley. له the most nearly connected with our pre- sent and future happiness . If there be a God , and if we be account- able to him for our conduct , it must be highly interefling to us to know all that we can concerning his ...
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