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Side 10
... moral discipline proceeds entirely upon this principle . If I carefully persuade , exhort , and exhibit motives to another , it is because I believe that motives have a tendency to influence his conduct . If I reward or punish him ...
... moral discipline proceeds entirely upon this principle . If I carefully persuade , exhort , and exhibit motives to another , it is because I believe that motives have a tendency to influence his conduct . If I reward or punish him ...
Side 12
... of general laws , to which the events of the material universe always conform , man would have been a poor wretched creature , instead of a reasoning and a moral being . " II . Our power or our means to produce any 12.
... of general laws , to which the events of the material universe always conform , man would have been a poor wretched creature , instead of a reasoning and a moral being . " II . Our power or our means to produce any 12.
Side 39
... moral truths . When we look back upon past ages , we see the destruction of error . - Astrology , witchcraft , ghosts , are now well understood ; and knowledge has set us free . -The advocates , in this land of liberty and Chris ...
... moral truths . When we look back upon past ages , we see the destruction of error . - Astrology , witchcraft , ghosts , are now well understood ; and knowledge has set us free . -The advocates , in this land of liberty and Chris ...
Side 58
... moral philosophy . The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distemper'd blood Than to make up a free determination ' Twixt right and wrong ; " for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders , to the voice ...
... moral philosophy . The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distemper'd blood Than to make up a free determination ' Twixt right and wrong ; " for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders , to the voice ...
Side 64
... morals or physics or metaphysics , endeavours to connect his own narrow views of self - interest with the public welfare and defends any doctrine or party that will give power or continue it . En- gaged as politicians are in active ...
... morals or physics or metaphysics , endeavours to connect his own narrow views of self - interest with the public welfare and defends any doctrine or party that will give power or continue it . En- gaged as politicians are in active ...
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Side 8 - Of law, there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage : the very least as feeling her care ; and the greatest, as not exempted from her power.
Side 78 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Side 108 - ... from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul ! Yesterday a most excellent sermon was preached by the Rev.
Side 191 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Side 255 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Side 217 - I HOLD every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Side 19 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on...
Side 264 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the Court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Side 48 - Moreover, ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people...
Side 246 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.