IN THE

FORMATION OF A MANLY CHARACTER,

ON THE SEVERAL GROUNDS OF

PRUDENCE, MORALITY, AND RELIGION:

ILLUSTRATED BY

SELECT PASSAGES FROM OUR ELDER DIVINES, ESPECIALLY

FROM ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON.

BY S. T. COLERIDGE.

FIRST AMERICAN, FROM THE FIRST LONDON EDITION;

WITH AN APPENDIX, AND ILLUSTRATIONS FROM OTHER WORKS OF THE SAME
AUTHOR; TOGETHER WITH A

PRELIMINARY ESSAY, AND ADDITIONAL NOTES,

BY JAMES MARSH,

PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT.

BURLINGTON:

CHAUNCEY GOODRICH.

MDCCCXXIX.

19476.390.5

L.S.

DISTRICT OF VERMONT, TO WIT:

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RISMS ON SPIRITUAL RELIGION

MORAL AND RELIGIOUS APHORISMS

ELEMENTS OF RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY, PRELIMINARY TO THE APнO-

APHORISMS ON SPIRITUAL RELIGION

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Ταυτα ὁ ΝΟΜΟΘΕΤΗΣ ΝΟΥΣ διαθεσμοθετει ταῖς ψυχαῖς. ὁ δε υποδεξ άμενος αυτά ΛΟΓΙΣΜΟΣ, δικαςής αγρυπνος ἑαυτου γίνεται. Πη παρέβην ; τι δ' έρεξα ; και εν τάξει την μνήμην αναλαμβάνων αρετής ένεκα είτα έυρων ἑαυτον συμ φωνως τοις προκειμένοις όροις διημερεύσαντα, της θείας ευφροσύνης τους κάρποις αναδει. παρα μελος δε τι πραξαντα φωράσας ωσπερ τισι φαρμακοῖς ταις μετανοιας νουθετησεσιν επιςυφει.

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Hierocles, as quoted by Renatus Vallinus in notes on Boethius.

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Neque esse mens divina sine RATIONE potest, nec RATIO divina non hané vim in rectis pravisque sanciendis habere. ** Erat enim RATIO profecta rerum naturâ, et ad recte faciendum impellens, et a delicto avocans; quæ non tum denique incipit lex esse, cum scripta est, sed tum cum orta est. Orta autem simul est cum mente divinâ.

Cicero de Legibus, Lib. ii. c. 4.

Hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are at hand; but the things that are in heaven who hath searched out? And thy counsel who hath known, except thou give WISDOM, and send thy HOLY SPIRIT from above? For so the ways of them which lived on the earth were reformed, and men were taught the things that are pleasing unto thee, and were saved Wisdom of Solomon, ix. 16, 17. 18. through wisdom.