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... reward of its earnest and upright pursuit . If we could within our- selves feel that the thought of evil was as reprehensible as its practice , we should stand on the highest step of the temple of virtue , and this instinctive ...
... reward of its earnest and upright pursuit . If we could within our- selves feel that the thought of evil was as reprehensible as its practice , we should stand on the highest step of the temple of virtue , and this instinctive ...
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... the laws which regulate and maintain the life - teeming world , herein is found its noblest purposes , and rewards of the highest value ; to contemplate the mighty mysteries of the E scheme of creation and to seek to apply the universal 25.
... the laws which regulate and maintain the life - teeming world , herein is found its noblest purposes , and rewards of the highest value ; to contemplate the mighty mysteries of the E scheme of creation and to seek to apply the universal 25.
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... reward to those who had spent unrequited lives in the great cause of human improvement and happiness , but were hated and despised by the people of their own era , -who should have rejoiced to be the first to proclaim and cherish their ...
... reward to those who had spent unrequited lives in the great cause of human improvement and happiness , but were hated and despised by the people of their own era , -who should have rejoiced to be the first to proclaim and cherish their ...
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... rewarded by utility to ourselves , are functions of the heart and soul strictly forbidden . But it is better and nobler to love for their own sakes the pure and good , to feel the humanizing instinct of brotherly endearment , to know ...
... rewarded by utility to ourselves , are functions of the heart and soul strictly forbidden . But it is better and nobler to love for their own sakes the pure and good , to feel the humanizing instinct of brotherly endearment , to know ...
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... reward so valuable in the well - regulated pursuit of knowledge , what greater inducement do we need to make us partakers of the plentiful and grateful “ feast of reason . " The advantages distributed by means of education are of the ...
... reward so valuable in the well - regulated pursuit of knowledge , what greater inducement do we need to make us partakers of the plentiful and grateful “ feast of reason . " The advantages distributed by means of education are of 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.