The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence. In Four Books ..., Volume 2J. Johnson and J. Payne, 1767 - Conduct of life |
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... happiness even of this prefent mortal life upon a fure and folid foundation . But every one of the four , and every confiderable particular in each of them , is abfo- lutely neceffary for railing our nature to that perfection and happiness ...
... happiness even of this prefent mortal life upon a fure and folid foundation . But every one of the four , and every confiderable particular in each of them , is abfo- lutely neceffary for railing our nature to that perfection and happiness ...
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... happiness is not preferable to miféry , than whether the whole is not greater than any of its parts . I can no more doubt , whether a being , who enjoys fix degrees of happiness , and at the fame time labours under one degree of misery ...
... happiness is not preferable to miféry , than whether the whole is not greater than any of its parts . I can no more doubt , whether a being , who enjoys fix degrees of happiness , and at the fame time labours under one degree of misery ...
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... happiness , they must fhew the wisdom of the infinitely - wife Creator in choofing rather to create than not . They must fhew how ( to fpeak with reverence ) he came to choose to create a world . For fince all things appear to him ...
... happiness , they must fhew the wisdom of the infinitely - wife Creator in choofing rather to create than not . They must fhew how ( to fpeak with reverence ) he came to choose to create a world . For fince all things appear to him ...
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... happiness to innumerable crea- tures ? and would it likewise be good to plunge innumerable innocent creatures into irrecoverable ruin and mifery ? If thefe feeming oppofites be not entirely the fame , then there is in morals a real ...
... happiness to innumerable crea- tures ? and would it likewise be good to plunge innumerable innocent creatures into irrecoverable ruin and mifery ? If thefe feeming oppofites be not entirely the fame , then there is in morals a real ...
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... happiness , it muft on the contrary be improper , or morally wicked , to endeavour to oppose the Divine scheme of be- nevolence , or to wifh innocent beings condemn- ed to mifery . There is therefore an eternal and effential , not a ...
... happiness , it muft on the contrary be improper , or morally wicked , to endeavour to oppose the Divine scheme of be- nevolence , or to wifh innocent beings condemn- ed to mifery . There is therefore an eternal and effential , not a ...
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