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... just Cause of Offence ; to aggravate the Injury , add the Circumstances of former Friendship , and Obligation from the injured Person ; let the Man who is fupposed to have done these two different Actions , coolly reflect upon them ...
... just Cause of Offence ; to aggravate the Injury , add the Circumstances of former Friendship , and Obligation from the injured Person ; let the Man who is fupposed to have done these two different Actions , coolly reflect upon them ...
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... just and good Part in it , unless other Paffions or Intereft lead him aftray . Yet fince other Paffions , and Regards to private Intereft , which lead us ( though indirectly , yet they lead us ) aftray , are themselves in a Degree ...
... just and good Part in it , unless other Paffions or Intereft lead him aftray . Yet fince other Paffions , and Regards to private Intereft , which lead us ( though indirectly , yet they lead us ) aftray , are themselves in a Degree ...
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... just and perfect , when all thofe under Principles are perfectly coincident with Confcience ; when Paffion and Appetite leads us to ' exactly the fame Course with Reflection and Judgment . The least Excess or Defect , the leaft ...
... just and perfect , when all thofe under Principles are perfectly coincident with Confcience ; when Paffion and Appetite leads us to ' exactly the fame Course with Reflection and Judgment . The least Excess or Defect , the leaft ...
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... just and reasonable Manner and De- gree , would upon the whole increase the Satisfactions , and leffen the Miferics of Life . It is the Tendency and Business of Virtue and Religion to procure , as much as may be , univerfal Good - will ...
... just and reasonable Manner and De- gree , would upon the whole increase the Satisfactions , and leffen the Miferics of Life . It is the Tendency and Business of Virtue and Religion to procure , as much as may be , univerfal Good - will ...
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... just take Notice of the Danger of over - great Refinements , of going befides or beyond the plain obvious firft Appearances of Things , upon the Subject of Morals and Religion . The leaft Obfervation will fhow , how lit- tle the ...
... just take Notice of the Danger of over - great Refinements , of going befides or beyond the plain obvious firft Appearances of Things , upon the Subject of Morals and Religion . The leaft Obfervation will fhow , how lit- tle the ...
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Page 257 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 170 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up : and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 259 - ... of whom, and through whom, and to whom are all things...
Page 111 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 283 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun...
Page 288 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Page 134 - The indignation raised by cruelty and injustice, and the desire of having it punished, which persons unconcerned would feel, is by no means malice. No, it is resentment against vice and wickedness : it is one of the common bonds, by which society is held together; a fellow-feeling, which each individual has in behalf of the whole species, as well as of himself.
Page 286 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Page 39 - Your obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should walk in, but it likewise carries its own authority with it, that it is our natural guide ; the guide assigned us by the Author of our nature...