The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1R. Carter, 1841 |
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... virtue in such a case , and a benefactor is the object of that virtue . 6. Now to make one feel the truth of the ethical principle , it matters not whether he has seen many or few benefactors in the course of his experience . Nay , it ...
... virtue in such a case , and a benefactor is the object of that virtue . 6. Now to make one feel the truth of the ethical principle , it matters not whether he has seen many or few benefactors in the course of his experience . Nay , it ...
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... virtue , there may of the virtue itself be a clear and vivid apprehension . A peasant , all whose experience is limited to the home- stead of his own little walk , can recognise the virtuousness of gratitude and justice and truth with ...
... virtue , there may of the virtue itself be a clear and vivid apprehension . A peasant , all whose experience is limited to the home- stead of his own little walk , can recognise the virtuousness of gratitude and justice and truth with ...
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... virtue of his mathematics , was enabled rightly to estimate many important relations which subsisted between the objects . Nay , it is conceivable that the objects might have re- mained for ever obscure and unknown to him . He , in this ...
... virtue of his mathematics , was enabled rightly to estimate many important relations which subsisted between the objects . Nay , it is conceivable that the objects might have re- mained for ever obscure and unknown to him . He , in this ...
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... virtue of which it can assign the moral relations that subsist between these objects . The facts of the science are just as distinct from the ethics of the science , as the facts of Natural Philo- sophy are from the mathematics of ...
... virtue of which it can assign the moral relations that subsist between these objects . The facts of the science are just as distinct from the ethics of the science , as the facts of Natural Philo- sophy are from the mathematics of ...
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... virtue in the emotion— if truth , and goodness , and purity , when seen in a fellow mortal , draw an homage from the heart of every observer - if within the bounds of our world , the obligations of honour and humanity , and justice ...
... virtue in the emotion— if truth , and goodness , and purity , when seen in a fellow mortal , draw an homage from the heart of every observer - if within the bounds of our world , the obligations of honour and humanity , and justice ...
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