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Some barbarous tribes find a pre- carious subsistence in dreary deserts ; and others , not less barba- rous , an easy one in domains of fertility , beauty , and luxury . We feel an uneasy sympathy with certain portions of the race ...
Some barbarous tribes find a pre- carious subsistence in dreary deserts ; and others , not less barba- rous , an easy one in domains of fertility , beauty , and luxury . We feel an uneasy sympathy with certain portions of the race ...
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As these noxious agents can work their purposes out of reach of revenge , and with greater facility and power than when in the mortal state , it may be supposed that the atuas - that - are - to - be should feel the less repugnance to ...
As these noxious agents can work their purposes out of reach of revenge , and with greater facility and power than when in the mortal state , it may be supposed that the atuas - that - are - to - be should feel the less repugnance to ...
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We know not what authority it can be that keeps the peace ; for the chiefs ( the magis- tracy , as one would suppose ) , feel so strongly the necessity of some such pleasurable excitement , that ever and anon they are descending for a ...
We know not what authority it can be that keeps the peace ; for the chiefs ( the magis- tracy , as one would suppose ) , feel so strongly the necessity of some such pleasurable excitement , that ever and anon they are descending for a ...
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It is true that we feel even while we admit the doctrine of the certainty of volition , that we are still responsible for our actions , and this we should feel even if we retained the word necessity ; we feel that so long as we are ...
It is true that we feel even while we admit the doctrine of the certainty of volition , that we are still responsible for our actions , and this we should feel even if we retained the word necessity ; we feel that so long as we are ...
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This we cannot but feel , and this it is probable is all that we know or are likely to know about the matter . * 6 The sections entitled Theory of Morals ' and ' Religion , ' are both very short , much shorter than we could wish ...
This we cannot but feel , and this it is probable is all that we know or are likely to know about the matter . * 6 The sections entitled Theory of Morals ' and ' Religion , ' are both very short , much shorter than we could wish ...
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Seite 538 - How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her. For she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Seite 412 - For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Seite 322 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Seite 412 - I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world. even as 1 am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Seite 342 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Seite 150 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Seite 322 - Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam, purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Seite 335 - In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
Seite 615 - John, you know what my sentiments have been. You cannot suspect me of favouring readily any thing of this kind. But take care what you do with respect to that young man, for he is as surely called of God to preach, as you are. Examine what have been the fruits of his preaching: and hear him also yourself.
Seite 367 - I shall leave him dressed to posterity in the colours I saw him in the next progress after his inauguration, which was as green as the grass he trod on, with a feather in his cap, and a horn, instead of a sword, by his side ; how suitable to his age, calling, or person, I leave others to judge from his pictures...