 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...formed written resolutions (which still remain in my journal book) to practise them ever while I lived. Revelation had indeed no weight with me as such; but...because they were bad for us, or commanded because they wore beneficial to us, in their own natures, all the circumstances of things considered. And this persuasion,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...formed written resolutions (which still remain in my journal book) to practise them ever while I lived. Revelation had indeed no weight with me as such ;...good because it commanded them ; yet probably those in all ages and countries, have at times made use of PRAYER.' Thence I reasoned, that if all things... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...•written resolutions (which still remain in my journal book) to practise them ever while I lived. Revelation had indeed no weight with me as such ;...were forbidden by it, or good because it commanded tiiem; yet probably those actions might be forbidden because they were bad for us, or commanded because... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1834 - 500 pages
...formed written resolutions which still remain in my journal book, to practise them ever while I lived. Revelation had indeed no weight with me as such ;...not be bad, because they were forbidden by it, or because it commanded them ; yet probably those actions might be forbidden because they were bad for... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...quitted that kind of reading and study for others more satisfactory " practise them ever while I lived. Revelation had indeed no weight with me as such ; but I entertained ал opinion, that though certain actions might not be bad, because they were forbidden by it, or good... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 668 pages
...formed written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practise them ever while I lived.* Revelation had indeed no weight with me, as such ;...opinion, that, though certain actions might not be bad, became they were forbidden by it, or good because it commanded them; yet probably those actions might... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 522 pages
...framed written resolutions, which still remain in my journal-book, to practise them ever while I lived. Revelation had, indeed, no weight with me, as such ; but I entertained an opinion that, although certain actions might not be bad, because they were forbidden by it, or good, because it commanded... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...formed written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practice them ever while I lived. Revelation had indeed no weight with me as such, but...or good because it commanded them, yet, probably, these actions might be forbidden because they were bad for us, or commanded because they were beneficial... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - Biography - 1853 - 446 pages
...All partial Evil, universal Good : , journal book, to practise them ever while I lived.* Eevelatiou had indeed no weight with me as such ; but I entertained...be bad because they were forbidden by it, or good became it commanded them, yet, probably, those actions might be forbidden because they were bad for... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Printers - 1856 - 654 pages
...formed written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practise them ever while I lived.* Revelation had indeed no weight with me, as such ;...actions might be forbidden because they were bad for u^, or commanded because they were beneficial to us, in their own natures, all the circumstances of... | |
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I entertained an opinion that, though certain actions might not be bad because they were forbidden by it, or good because it commanded them, yet probably these actions might be forbidden because they were bad for us, or commanded because they were beneficial... 
