 | Benjamin F. Powell - Ethics - 1831 - 274 pages
...considerations of honour or shame to ensue therefrom. On this rule, morals, or the distinction between what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do, are founded. Wisdom consists in distinguishing good from evil. 3. The natural lesson of mankind is,... | |
 | Benjamin F. Powell - Free thought - 1831 - 276 pages
...considerations of honour or shame to ensue therefrom. On this rule, morals, or the distinction between what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do, are founded. Wisdom consists in distinguishing good from evil. 3. The natural lesson of mankind is,... | |
 | John Budd Pitkin, Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch - Sermons, American - 1837 - 354 pages
...that God has not endowed us with a sufficient capacity to distinguish between right and wrong, between what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do. A second defence against sin which the Deity has implanted in our moral natures is conscience. Whether... | |
 | Martin Luther - History - 1837 - 408 pages
...and threatenings concerning the destruction of the wicked. 2. There are some Psalms which teach us what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do, according to the law of God. To this kind belong all those Psalms which condemn human doctrines, and... | |
 | Food - 1839 - 370 pages
...Bible, or a hundred pounds, you would choose the Bible ? But the Bible tells us something more than what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do. It tells us about Jesus, and what he used to say when he was here upon earth. And do you not like hearing... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1842 - 200 pages
...when we sin, is Conscience. Conscience is very faithful ; it is always ready in our hearts, to tell us what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do. This lesson will explain to children several ways in which conscience is very faithful to us. 1. Conscience... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - Church - 1845 - 240 pages
...be effected by direct precepts, Christian doctrine is no more than a law of duties, a statement of what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do. When it is to be effected by an appeal to our hopes and fears, Christian doctrine must be a statement... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - Anglican Communion - 1845 - 572 pages
...be effected by direct precepts, Christian doctrine is no more than a law of duties, a statement of what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do. When it is to be effected by an appeal to our hopes and fears, Christian doctrine must be 8 statement... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Sindh (Pakistan) - 1851 - 328 pages
...humble capacity of travellers, Mr. John Bull, we must, if we wish to be comfortable, attend a little to what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do, in society. If we would not be thought " peculiar" — Orientals hate that almost as much as Englishmen... | |
 | 1852 - 454 pages
...humble capaelty of travellers, Mr. John Bui I, we must, if we wish to be comfortable, attend a little to what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do, in socictv. If we would not be thought " peculiar '' — Oricntals hate that almost as much as Englishmen... | |
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... and what we ought to do and what we ought not to do, whoever came into the world without having an innate idea of them? 
