The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 37-38 |
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... - The ignorance and audacity which man carries to the contemplation of it - Passage from the book of Job , admirable to this point 35 69. On the excellency of an early inculcation No. of religious principles , in respect to every object.
... - The ignorance and audacity which man carries to the contemplation of it - Passage from the book of Job , admirable to this point 35 69. On the excellency of an early inculcation No. of religious principles , in respect to every object.
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British essayists Alexander Chalmers. No. of religious principles , in respect to every object of education - Story ... principles of taste canvassed at the Club - Mr . Barnaby's opinions rather loose upon this subject - Mr . Blunt's- A ...
British essayists Alexander Chalmers. No. of religious principles , in respect to every object of education - Story ... principles of taste canvassed at the Club - Mr . Barnaby's opinions rather loose upon this subject - Mr . Blunt's- A ...
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... principles of prudence and probity , and makes no provision for those perpetual shocks and vicissitudes which place disappointment and disaster among the moral cer- tainties of life . No. 66. SATURDAY , AUGUST 17 . Satis est , mi Tiberi ...
... principles of prudence and probity , and makes no provision for those perpetual shocks and vicissitudes which place disappointment and disaster among the moral cer- tainties of life . No. 66. SATURDAY , AUGUST 17 . Satis est , mi Tiberi ...
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... principle on which its excellence is founded . I set out with concluding , that in studying to make our- selves happy we fulfil one of the most evident indi- cations which Providence has given us of his will , and the principal end of ...
... principle on which its excellence is founded . I set out with concluding , that in studying to make our- selves happy we fulfil one of the most evident indi- cations which Providence has given us of his will , and the principal end of ...
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... principle of equity it arises ! What encouragement and certainty it lends to repentance ! while it ren- ders our duty our delight , and our religion a regale . Adieu , under such a system , to the secret torments of conscience , and ...
... principle of equity it arises ! What encouragement and certainty it lends to repentance ! while it ren- ders our duty our delight , and our religion a regale . Adieu , under such a system , to the secret torments of conscience , and ...
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Page 7 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 272 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find ? Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Page 37 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Page 93 - Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Page 38 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Page viii - Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state; But transient is the smile of fate! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Page 93 - As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
Page 270 - Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.
Page 118 - Moral precepts are precepts, the reasons of which we see: positive precepts are precepts, the reasons of which we do not see.* Moral duties arise out of the nature of the case itself, prior to external command. Positive duties do not arise out of the nature of the case, but from external command ; nor would they be duties at all, were it not for such command, received from him whose creatures and subjects we are.
Page 186 - We know, indeed, several of the general laws of matter; and a great part of the natural behaviour of living agents is reducible to general laws. But we know, in a manner, nothing, by what laws storms and tempests, earthquakes, famine, pestilence, become the instruments of destruction to mankind.