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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... Influence , 59-67 X : Its further Influence , and its Corruptions , 68-78 XI . Libertinifm defcribed ; with the Hi- ftory of JACK FREEMAN , 79-89 XII : The Art of TEACHING --- Literary and Familiar --- with an Example of it in ...
... Influence , 59-67 X : Its further Influence , and its Corruptions , 68-78 XI . Libertinifm defcribed ; with the Hi- ftory of JACK FREEMAN , 79-89 XII : The Art of TEACHING --- Literary and Familiar --- with an Example of it in ...
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... What- ever depends on the will of others , or e ven on ourselves , is uncertain , and muft in fome degree be changeable . Whatever de . pends pends on the influence of caufes unknown to us is A View of HUMAN LIFE . 23.
... What- ever depends on the will of others , or e ven on ourselves , is uncertain , and muft in fome degree be changeable . Whatever de . pends pends on the influence of caufes unknown to us is A View of HUMAN LIFE . 23.
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Relating to Human Life and Happiness John Bethune. pends on the influence of caufes unknown to us is uncertain ; and how great a share of what we enjoy or expect , depends on fuch caufes as thefe ? How few of them whofe operation is ...
Relating to Human Life and Happiness John Bethune. pends on the influence of caufes unknown to us is uncertain ; and how great a share of what we enjoy or expect , depends on fuch caufes as thefe ? How few of them whofe operation is ...
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... influence be- yond our present state . But if in this our ftate of infancy and trial , no pains are ta- ken to cultivate thofe habits of mind which are the proper foundations of happiness , what hopes can there be of our attaining it ...
... influence be- yond our present state . But if in this our ftate of infancy and trial , no pains are ta- ken to cultivate thofe habits of mind which are the proper foundations of happiness , what hopes can there be of our attaining it ...
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... influenced by popular prejudice , at his own defire , doomed him to fweep the stage . In the execution of this office he was often troublesome , and brushed without diftinction his enemies and friends . Some he wantonly drove to the ...
... influenced by popular prejudice , at his own defire , doomed him to fweep the stage . In the execution of this office he was often troublesome , and brushed without diftinction his enemies and friends . Some he wantonly drove to the ...
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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...