Essays on Miscellaneous Subjects: Historical, Moral, and Political ...Hobson, 1842 - 212 pages |
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... gives birth to a division and opposition of interests , while the principle of selfish antagonism prevailing plus aut minus , in the bosoms of all , renders it impossible for a law to be enacted which shall ultimately conduce to the ...
... gives birth to a division and opposition of interests , while the principle of selfish antagonism prevailing plus aut minus , in the bosoms of all , renders it impossible for a law to be enacted which shall ultimately conduce to the ...
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... gives to them a unity of purpose , principle , and action , which enables the company to succeed . The resources of a nation can be , and frequently have been , directed towards the accomplishment of a national object . And why , we ask ...
... gives to them a unity of purpose , principle , and action , which enables the company to succeed . The resources of a nation can be , and frequently have been , directed towards the accomplishment of a national object . And why , we ask ...
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... give us the slightest information . Yet surely it might seem necessary to settle with accuracy the nature of an eternal principle , or , at least , prove that such a thing exists , before its assumed existence be admitted as a postulate ...
... give us the slightest information . Yet surely it might seem necessary to settle with accuracy the nature of an eternal principle , or , at least , prove that such a thing exists , before its assumed existence be admitted as a postulate ...
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... give to them a commanding power in the nation , and that the good of the individual is promoted by advancing the interest of the general body , they would not now have to com- plain of a deprivation of their natural rights , nor of the ...
... give to them a commanding power in the nation , and that the good of the individual is promoted by advancing the interest of the general body , they would not now have to com- plain of a deprivation of their natural rights , nor of the ...
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... give the people plenty of bibles , religious tracts , and treatises on practical divinity ; accustom them to attend the church , to receive the sacraments , and to submit themselves to the powers that be ; and then morality may be ...
... give the people plenty of bibles , religious tracts , and treatises on practical divinity ; accustom them to attend the church , to receive the sacraments , and to submit themselves to the powers that be ; and then morality may be ...
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Page 29 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 30 - God before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions or causes moving him thereunto, and all to the praise of his glorious grace.
Page 30 - The rest of mankind God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, (whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy, as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures,) to pass by, and to ordain them to dishonour and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.
Page 30 - As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath he, by the eternal and most free purpose of his will, foreordained all the means thereunto. Wherefore they who are elected, being fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ ; are effectually called unto faith in Christ, by his Spirit working in due season ; are justified, adopted, sanctified, and kept by his power through faith unto salvation. Neither are any other redeemed by Christ, effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified, and saved, but...
Page 30 - Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according to His eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret council and good pleasure of His will, hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory out of His mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works...
Page 32 - No hostile hand can antedate my doom, Till fate condemns me to the silent tomb. Fix'd is the term to all the race of earth, And such the hard condition of our birth.
Page 36 - That there is some fixed law of nature respecting the will, as well as the other powers of the mind, and every thing else in the constitution of nature ; and consequently that it is never determined without some real or apparent cause foreign to itself, ie, without some motive of choice; or that motives influence us in some definite and invariable manner, so that every volition, or choice, is constantly regulated and determined by what precedes it...
Page 29 - GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Page 13 - For we can give such figures to transparent bodies, and dispose them in such order with respect to the eye and the objects, that the rays shall be refracted and bent towards any place we please ; so that we shall see the object near at hand, or at a distance under any angle we please. And thus from an incredible distance we may read the smallest letters, and may number the smallest particles of dust and sand, by reason of the greatness of the angle under which we may see them...
Page 7 - In the meadows, the unsightly mushroom, and the useless moss, choke the nutritious herbs ; forests become impenetrable to the rays of the sun ; no wind disperses the putrid exhalations of the trees which have fallen under the pressure of age ; the soil, excluded from the genial and purifying warmth of the air, exhales nothing but poisons ; and an atmosphere of death gathers over the whole country. But what do not industry and perseverance accomplish ? The marshes are drained ; the rivers flow in...