The Elements of Mental and Moral Philosophy, Founded Upon Experience, Reason and the BiblePeter B. Gleason & Company, 1831 - 452 páginas |
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... duty in order to decide whether it is right or wrong , we exercise the same faculty . This act always is necessarily preceded by the comparison of one thing with another , in order to notice the relations . Abstraction , is the power of ...
... duty in order to decide whether it is right or wrong , we exercise the same faculty . This act always is necessarily preceded by the comparison of one thing with another , in order to notice the relations . Abstraction , is the power of ...
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... duty is sought as a pleasure . Were mankind led to seek food , merely in the exercise of reason , for the purpose of preserving life , multitudes through carelessness and forgetfulness , would be perpetually neglect- ing that regular ...
... duty is sought as a pleasure . Were mankind led to seek food , merely in the exercise of reason , for the purpose of preserving life , multitudes through carelessness and forgetfulness , would be perpetually neglect- ing that regular ...
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... duty , gratitude , or affec- tion ; for no past benefit or obligation could be recognized as belonging to ourselves , nor could repentance and remorse visit us with their painful , yet necessary monitions . All at- tributes both of a ...
... duty , gratitude , or affec- tion ; for no past benefit or obligation could be recognized as belonging to ourselves , nor could repentance and remorse visit us with their painful , yet necessary monitions . All at- tributes both of a ...
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... duty . But no proof can be furnished that these actions were regard- ed as virtuous , when it was seen that their legitimate ten- dency was to cause only evil both to the state and to indi- viduals . On the contrary , it can be shown ...
... duty . But no proof can be furnished that these actions were regard- ed as virtuous , when it was seen that their legitimate ten- dency was to cause only evil both to the state and to indi- viduals . On the contrary , it can be shown ...
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... duty , and of happiness . There are two ways in which the desires and wishes regu- late belief . In the first place , by preventing attention to the subject which would lead to the belief of truths , that are inconsistent with the ...
... duty , and of happiness . There are two ways in which the desires and wishes regu- late belief . In the first place , by preventing attention to the subject which would lead to the belief of truths , that are inconsistent with the ...
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The Elements of Mental and Moral Philosophy: Founded Upon Experience, Reason ... Catharine Esther Beecher Vista de fragmentos - 1978 |
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actions affection Apostles assertion attention awaken believe benevolence Bible body called cause character child children of God Christianity circumstances colours common conceptions connected course Creator desire disordered operation distinct Divine duty earth emotions employed enjoyment eternal evidence evil exercise exhibited existence express faith Father feel formed gained guilty habits happiness Holy human mind ideas Imperative mood Infinite Mind influence intellectual interest interfixes interpreting language Israel Jehovah Jesus Christ Jews Justin Martyr knowledge language Lord mankind mental mode moral nature ness never noun obedience object Old Testament operations painful parents participle particular past experience perception person pleasure Polycarp power of sympathy principle proof qualities reason recall records rectitude regard relation Revelation sacrifice Scripture secure selfish sensation sense sorrow sounds spirit sublime suffering susceptibilities taste term Tertullian Testament things thou tion truth verb words worship writers
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Página 308 - And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so ? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou me?
Página 373 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints...
Página 353 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Página 306 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Página 352 - Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...
Página 376 - For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Página 306 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Página 303 - Lo, these are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him?
Página 222 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Página 293 - And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.