Essays and Dissertations on Various Subjects: Relating to Human Life and Happiness, Band 1A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1770 - 379 Seiten |
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... exercise either of memory or invention would be requifite to enlarge on it much more than the bounds . now prescribed will permit us to do on any one fubject of whatever importance ; for though Gratitude to GoD , and to man , be a very ...
... exercise either of memory or invention would be requifite to enlarge on it much more than the bounds . now prescribed will permit us to do on any one fubject of whatever importance ; for though Gratitude to GoD , and to man , be a very ...
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... exercise of fincere unfeign- ed Gratitude to GOD , or those devout and affectionate overflowings of foul towards him , which naturally arife from the serious contemplation of his goodness , as displayed to all of us in common , and each ...
... exercise of fincere unfeign- ed Gratitude to GOD , or those devout and affectionate overflowings of foul towards him , which naturally arife from the serious contemplation of his goodness , as displayed to all of us in common , and each ...
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... exercises too ferious to be generally agreeable ; and you seemed to be aware of it , when you promised fomething humorous to qualify them : It would be inconfiftent with your avowed fincerity , to fuppofe that you would have made fuch a ...
... exercises too ferious to be generally agreeable ; and you seemed to be aware of it , when you promised fomething humorous to qualify them : It would be inconfiftent with your avowed fincerity , to fuppofe that you would have made fuch a ...
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... exercise of this executive power in various emergencies , it must be com- mitted to a few , whofe authority cannot be limited in all cafes , and on whom there- fore fore there must be more dependence for liberty ; which Its Value ...
... exercise of this executive power in various emergencies , it must be com- mitted to a few , whofe authority cannot be limited in all cafes , and on whom there- fore fore there must be more dependence for liberty ; which Its Value ...
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... exercise of which depends the fafety and welfare of thofe who are fubject to it , and who may enjoy many advantages under it , but cannot be faid to enjoy that liberty we mentioned , by which they are freed from all reftraint , except ...
... exercise of which depends the fafety and welfare of thofe who are fubject to it , and who may enjoy many advantages under it , but cannot be faid to enjoy that liberty we mentioned , by which they are freed from all reftraint , except ...
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Seite 119 - Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white?
Seite 181 - He is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works...
Seite 4 - ... than to reflect a little on the many grounds of gratitude we have to that beneficent Being from whom all being and happinefs are derived ; and...
Seite 123 - may be thus briefly defined ; a reflex principle within us neceftarily or involuntarily determining us to approve of fome of our actions and affections as good, and difapprove of the contrary as evil, in a moral and religious fenfe, as we fhall afterwards fee ; in which view, the questions' that naturally arife with refpect to it are as follows : * I.
Seite 5 - ... regard and conformity to the Divine Will, as it is impoffible for us to be fincerely thankful either to God or man, without endeavouring to pleafe or gratify him to whom we are thankful, and to whom we reckon ourfelves indebted ; whereas an ungrateful heart is, in all...
Seite 6 - God has beftowed, and continues liberally to bellow upon us, and which we are bound always thankfully to remember and acknowledge : But what tongue can tell the number of his benefits ? Fancy itfelf is loft in the...
Seite 4 - ... he has nothing to hope nor to fear from the difcovery ; and by reducing his weekly admonitions to very narrow limits, he hopes to prevent their becoming burdenfome to himfelf or to others.
Seite 5 - ... hold of every favourable opportunity of exciting a due attention to the bleffings of heaven, and grateful adoration of the...
Seite 6 - ... the body, every mean of informing and improving the foul, is the gift, the free and unmerited gift of our beneficent Creator ; earth, fea and air, proclaim his goodnefs ; every feafon, every. region of nature, abounds with the tendereft inftances of his affection for the forts of men.
Seite 5 - ... part of our time in reviewing both the more general and particular...