AddressesJoseph Griffin, printer, 1820 - 176 páginas |
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Página 43
... perceive the falseness of former opinions , when you are only convinced , that present interest requires you to renounce them . To act agreeably to the dictates of reason and conscience , though present advantage or the popular ...
... perceive the falseness of former opinions , when you are only convinced , that present interest requires you to renounce them . To act agreeably to the dictates of reason and conscience , though present advantage or the popular ...
Página 56
... perceive , that talents , the most surprising and various , and under the highest possible cultivation , are inadequate to discover , without celestial light , the only true and solid ground of moral duty : and to apply to the most ...
... perceive , that talents , the most surprising and various , and under the highest possible cultivation , are inadequate to discover , without celestial light , the only true and solid ground of moral duty : and to apply to the most ...
Página 87
... perceive , compare , abstract , and form conclu- sions . Their province extends to moral , not less than to other ... Perceiving these relations , we discern the reality of duty and the fit- ness of actions . But though the obligations ...
... perceive , compare , abstract , and form conclu- sions . Their province extends to moral , not less than to other ... Perceiving these relations , we discern the reality of duty and the fit- ness of actions . But though the obligations ...
Página 104
... perceiving one course to be right , and another to be wrong , would not be under obligation to adopt the one and avoid the other ? -whether this obligation would not be fastened upon him in every connexion , which he might form , and in ...
... perceiving one course to be right , and another to be wrong , would not be under obligation to adopt the one and avoid the other ? -whether this obligation would not be fastened upon him in every connexion , which he might form , and in ...
Página 108
... perceiving , that fraud , cruelty , oppres sion , and impiety , are essentially wrong ; and that the opposite qualities are , independently of conse- quences , entitled to the approbation and eager pur suit of all rational beings . We ...
... perceiving , that fraud , cruelty , oppres sion , and impiety , are essentially wrong ; and that the opposite qualities are , independently of conse- quences , entitled to the approbation and eager pur suit of all rational beings . We ...
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Página 45 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Página 68 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Página 47 - When thou goest, it shall lead thee ; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee ; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Página 52 - A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Página 16 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, eternal Word ! From thee departing, they are lost, and rove At random, without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all that sooths the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve.
Página 95 - Father of light and life Thou good supreme O teach me what is good Teach me thyself Save me from folly vanity and vice , . From evry low pursuit and feed my soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue pure Sacred substantial never fading bliss...
Página ii - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Página 109 - Time, in advance, behind him hides his wings, And seems to creep, decrepit with his age ; Behold him, when past by ; what then is seen, But his broad pinions swifter than the winds ? And all mankind, in contradiction strong, Rueful, aghast ! cry out on his career.
Página 35 - ... when the Son of God shall come to be glorified in his saints, and admired of all them that believe.
Página 91 - It borrows splendour from all that is fair, subordinates to itself all that is great, and sits enthroned on the riches of the universe.