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... reference to organized animal life . To extend the same principle upward to the Life of Man , to apply it to his Moral Being , is the object of this book . It is , as the reader may see , the principle of the motto , that I have chosen ...
... reference to organized animal life . To extend the same principle upward to the Life of Man , to apply it to his Moral Being , is the object of this book . It is , as the reader may see , the principle of the motto , that I have chosen ...
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... reference to man , to be true in the words of my second motto , that " Man's perfection is not by himself , nor by any- thing in or of himself , but by that which is to him external . " The Law of Duality , or to use a better word ...
... reference to man , to be true in the words of my second motto , that " Man's perfection is not by himself , nor by any- thing in or of himself , but by that which is to him external . " The Law of Duality , or to use a better word ...
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... reference to our future state and the grounds of our perpetual progress in it . -The question of innate ideas . CHAPTER II . .142 The Spiritual Reason . - Its Modes . - 1st . Moral Perception ; 2d . Moral Feeling ; 3d . Moral Principle ...
... reference to our future state and the grounds of our perpetual progress in it . -The question of innate ideas . CHAPTER II . .142 The Spiritual Reason . - Its Modes . - 1st . Moral Perception ; 2d . Moral Feeling ; 3d . Moral Principle ...
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... reference to this Power is a School of Love . - Errors that may be avoided by this consideration . - e of Instinct in Animals . - Moral Principle and Rule of the Affections deducible from this . - What is " Nobleness " of Heart , and ...
... reference to this Power is a School of Love . - Errors that may be avoided by this consideration . - e of Instinct in Animals . - Moral Principle and Rule of the Affections deducible from this . - What is " Nobleness " of Heart , and ...
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... reference to ourselves and our ideas that we apply the term . The generosity of the lion , the ferocity of the wolf , the untameable fierceness of the wild ass , the cruelty of the tiger , the cunning of the fox , all these are but ...
... reference to ourselves and our ideas that we apply the term . The generosity of the lion , the ferocity of the wolf , the untameable fierceness of the wild ass , the cruelty of the tiger , the cunning of the fox , all these are but ...
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Page 259 - And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 216 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 353 - For I know that in me (that is in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing, for to •will is present with me; but how to perform that •which is good I find not.
Page 353 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 309 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 277 - So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Page 95 - And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.
Page 275 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 318 - Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, And broader than the sea.
Page 353 - For that which I do I allow not : for what I would, that do I not ; but what I hate, that do I.