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... progress in wisdom and virtue , and therefore happiness . The human mind is specially constituted by God for this high destiny . Any mental training that does not keep it constantly in view is unsound , as regards man's well - being ...
... progress in wisdom and virtue , and therefore happiness . The human mind is specially constituted by God for this high destiny . Any mental training that does not keep it constantly in view is unsound , as regards man's well - being ...
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... progress . 46. A grand law of the pleasures and pains of sense is that by frequent repetitions they lose their vividness . This is of great importance in connexion with our moral culture . Pleasure passes to pain by increasing its cause ...
... progress . 46. A grand law of the pleasures and pains of sense is that by frequent repetitions they lose their vividness . This is of great importance in connexion with our moral culture . Pleasure passes to pain by increasing its cause ...
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... from the necessity of being much in the open air . Our corporeal , intellectual , and moral powers , may thus be made to progress simultaneously . Sensibility to the beauties of nature should be 14 MENTAL PHILOSOPHY .
... from the necessity of being much in the open air . Our corporeal , intellectual , and moral powers , may thus be made to progress simultaneously . Sensibility to the beauties of nature should be 14 MENTAL PHILOSOPHY .
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... progress in knowledge , in every man that rightly employs his powers , is altogether illimit able . The philosophy , not of mind only but of the universe , is to be found within ourselves . 54. Mental philosophy requires not expensive ...
... progress in knowledge , in every man that rightly employs his powers , is altogether illimit able . The philosophy , not of mind only but of the universe , is to be found within ourselves . 54. Mental philosophy requires not expensive ...
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... progress . Sperma- ceti whales are said to " have the power of communicating with each other at great distances . . . . When a straggler is attacked at the distance of several miles from a shoal , a number of its fellows bear down to ...
... progress . Sperma- ceti whales are said to " have the power of communicating with each other at great distances . . . . When a straggler is attacked at the distance of several miles from a shoal , a number of its fellows bear down to ...
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Page 100 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Page 16 - Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto THE LOVE OF GOD 129 us, that we may hear it, and do it ? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 14 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Page 58 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 126 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 146 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Page 15 - For him, the Spring Distils her dews, and from the silken gem Its lucid leaves unfolds; for him, the hand Of Autumn tinges every fertile branch With blooming gold and blushes like the morn.
Page 110 - No more shall nation against nation rise, Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes,' Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er ; The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more ; But useless lances into scythes shall bend, And the broad falchion in a ploughshare end.
Page 140 - Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
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