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... means of advancing and ensuring our felicity and dignity , and we very properly employ education to develope their extent and utility . All things are placed under the dominion of man ; but in strength and stature , in fleetness and ...
... means of advancing and ensuring our felicity and dignity , and we very properly employ education to develope their extent and utility . All things are placed under the dominion of man ; but in strength and stature , in fleetness and ...
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... means of gratification at their command , served rather to increase their dejection and suffering . The stronger passions of love , hate , and terror possessed them , they knew no ameliorating influences to regulate or check their ...
... means of gratification at their command , served rather to increase their dejection and suffering . The stronger passions of love , hate , and terror possessed them , they knew no ameliorating influences to regulate or check their ...
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... means , the benign influence of the mind is permitted freedom , and the various faculties aud affections being employed regularly and serviceably , they sustain and adjust each other , in firm and temperate uniformity . Its utility is ...
... means , the benign influence of the mind is permitted freedom , and the various faculties aud affections being employed regularly and serviceably , they sustain and adjust each other , in firm and temperate uniformity . Its utility is ...
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... means of antagonistic inclinations , by nourishing notions which lead to good , and by equalizing our affections and regards for the higher duties of society . Practically , in civilized communities , usage and conventional require ...
... means of antagonistic inclinations , by nourishing notions which lead to good , and by equalizing our affections and regards for the higher duties of society . Practically , in civilized communities , usage and conventional require ...
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... means of force and severity ; the strong rule the weak , and might , takes the place of right . The bold and clever get their wishes carried out , and the majority being weak and vaccillating , bow submissively to their authority . The ...
... means of force and severity ; the strong rule the weak , and might , takes the place of right . The bold and clever get their wishes carried out , and the majority being weak and vaccillating , bow submissively to their authority . The ...
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acquirements acts advance advantages Aston Bottrel attainments attention beautiful become belong Bewdley blessings brain Bridgnorth bright Burwarton character circumstances civilized claims conduct contemplation conveyed Davis delight desires develope dignity discipline diseased ditto Mr G ditto Mr W duties enjoyment error esteem evil exalted exercise exhibit experience faculties felicity furnishes the means gives gratification habits happiness Haymoor higher highest human ignorance important impulses influence intel intellectual intelligence judgment knowledge labour learning living Ludlow mankind matter mental ments Meredith mind Minton Mongolian moral and social Mytton ditto Miss nature necessity Neenton nobler numerous objects observation obtain Oldswinford opinion organs ourselves Owens passions perfect permanent philosophy and science pleasures Popular Science possess precepts principles progress purity purposes pursuit reflection regulate reward rience rude rule secure shewing society Stanton Long Stourbridge Mr E superior talent tion truth uneducated utility virtues whilst wisdom Wolverhampton Wordsley yield
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Página 45 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Página 12 - Wise men now agree, or ought to agree in this, that there is but one way to the knowledge of Nature's works ; the way of observation and experiment. By our constitution, we have a strong propensity to trace particular facts and observations to general rules, and to apply such general rules to account for other effects, or to direct us in the production of them.
Página 15 - ... divine nature, become creaturely existing, or breathed forth from God, to stand before Him in the form of a creature. When the animals of this world were to be created, it was only said, Let the earth, the air, the water, bring forth creatures after their kinds; but when man was to be brought forth, it was said, Let us make man in our own image and likeness.
Página 35 - ... wise man more than the fool?... There is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in wickedness.... One man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found.... The race is not to the swift, the battle to the strong; neither bread to the wise, nor riches to the man of understanding.... On all things is written vanity.