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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... measure capable of fharing his happiness and perfection . When one year , therefore , is past away , and another in the order of nature fucceeds it , can any in 4 Occafion and Defign of the ESSAYS , The Re-union of SOUL and BODY, with ...
... measure capable of fharing his happiness and perfection . When one year , therefore , is past away , and another in the order of nature fucceeds it , can any in 4 Occafion and Defign of the ESSAYS , The Re-union of SOUL and BODY, with ...
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... measure of enjoyment , and , with this view , to make us confider the diftributions of providence , fome of which are of a more public , others of a more private nature ; the former have a more univerfal Language , the latter are ad ...
... measure of enjoyment , and , with this view , to make us confider the diftributions of providence , fome of which are of a more public , others of a more private nature ; the former have a more univerfal Language , the latter are ad ...
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... measure known , how feldom are they at our command ? Hence we fee how little knowledge we have to difcern , or power to accomplish , and by how precarious a tenure we hold our all in life . Enough is feen to teach us the folly of ...
... measure known , how feldom are they at our command ? Hence we fee how little knowledge we have to difcern , or power to accomplish , and by how precarious a tenure we hold our all in life . Enough is feen to teach us the folly of ...
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... measure above three English miles in length , and nine or ten round ; and as they are not capable of further improve- ment by agriculture , nor conveniently fitu- ated for commerce or manufactures , the number of fixed inhabitants is ...
... measure above three English miles in length , and nine or ten round ; and as they are not capable of further improve- ment by agriculture , nor conveniently fitu- ated for commerce or manufactures , the number of fixed inhabitants is ...
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... measure to that of the fociety they belong to . But man's natural defire of liberty would , no doubt , make that fociety the moft defirable , in which most of it might be retained ; i . e . in which there was moft of national and ...
... measure to that of the fociety they belong to . But man's natural defire of liberty would , no doubt , make that fociety the moft defirable , in which most of it might be retained ; i . e . in which there was moft of national and ...
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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...