Essays on Miscellaneous Subjects: Historical, Moral, and Political ...Hobson, 1842 - 212 pages |
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... spirit in which they have been written . There is no doctrine more true than that which asserts that " whatever is good for the many is good for the few ; " that is whatever arrangements are calculated to promote the public welfare ...
... spirit in which they have been written . There is no doctrine more true than that which asserts that " whatever is good for the many is good for the few ; " that is whatever arrangements are calculated to promote the public welfare ...
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... spirit of conceit and dogmatism which is generally the characteristic of an ill instructed mind , is to be found in an enlarged knowledge of one's self . Self - knowledge enables us to perceive the field wherein we may most successfully ...
... spirit of conceit and dogmatism which is generally the characteristic of an ill instructed mind , is to be found in an enlarged knowledge of one's self . Self - knowledge enables us to perceive the field wherein we may most successfully ...
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... spirit of hostility against those who may at pre- sent be in the possession of hereditary honours . I write them for the purpose of exhibiting the absurdity of supposing that ancestral distinctions can confer true dignity on an ...
... spirit of hostility against those who may at pre- sent be in the possession of hereditary honours . I write them for the purpose of exhibiting the absurdity of supposing that ancestral distinctions can confer true dignity on an ...
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... spirit of vanity . The fact is , that possessors of wealth who thus speak contemptuously of their brethren , do not like to part with any of their superfluous capital to advance the happiness of the working classes ; and , therefore ...
... spirit of vanity . The fact is , that possessors of wealth who thus speak contemptuously of their brethren , do not like to part with any of their superfluous capital to advance the happiness of the working classes ; and , therefore ...
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... spirit of repining manifested by the rich , prove that the means they have at their disposal , are far from being commensurate with their wishes . O who can tell the deep - toned misery and eager pantings of that man's heart , whose ...
... spirit of repining manifested by the rich , prove that the means they have at their disposal , are far from being commensurate with their wishes . O who can tell the deep - toned misery and eager pantings of that man's heart , whose ...
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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...