The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence. In Four Books ..., Band 2J. Johnson and J. Payne, 1767 |
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... subject millions of innocent beings to unspeakable mifery ; would this likewife be good ? Was it better to create than not ? and is it like- wife better to deftroy than preferve ? Was it good to give being and happiness to innumerable ...
... subject millions of innocent beings to unspeakable mifery ; would this likewife be good ? Was it better to create than not ? and is it like- wife better to deftroy than preferve ? Was it good to give being and happiness to innumerable ...
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... subject for an angel to preach upon , and the whole human race to be his audience . It is the very fubject , which the ambaffador of heaven came to this world to treat of , and ex- plain to mankind . Happiness is no imaginary or ...
... subject for an angel to preach upon , and the whole human race to be his audience . It is the very fubject , which the ambaffador of heaven came to this world to treat of , and ex- plain to mankind . Happiness is no imaginary or ...
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... subject obliges me to confute fuch an opinion . Though the diftinguifhing character of man is reason , it is evident , that reafon does not in general prevail in the prefent ftate ; but on the F 4 contrary contrary vice and folly and ...
... subject obliges me to confute fuch an opinion . Though the diftinguifhing character of man is reason , it is evident , that reafon does not in general prevail in the prefent ftate ; but on the F 4 contrary contrary vice and folly and ...
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... excefs commit- ted , nor greater deviations from the intention of nature , than in that which is the subject of this paragraph . Were the above apology for excefs of of any weight , that is , were it proper 162 THE DIGNITY OF.
... excefs commit- ted , nor greater deviations from the intention of nature , than in that which is the subject of this paragraph . Were the above apology for excefs of of any weight , that is , were it proper 162 THE DIGNITY OF.
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... subject of ridi- cule ? That venality has poisoned all ranks , from the bribed voter in a country - borough , upwards to the candidate for a place in the great affembly of the nation ? The enormous expences bestowed , and horrible ...
... subject of ridi- cule ? That venality has poisoned all ranks , from the bribed voter in a country - borough , upwards to the candidate for a place in the great affembly of the nation ? The enormous expences bestowed , and horrible ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 323 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Seite 323 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Seite 371 - Whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth...
Seite 324 - I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord.
Seite 440 - vifions, and behold one, like the SoN oF MAN, " came with the clouds of heaven, and came to ** the antient of days, and they brought him ** near before him.
Seite 166 - I must confess I think it is below reasonable creatures to be altogether conversant in such diversions as are merely innocent, and have nothing else to recommend them, but that there is no hurt in them. Whether any kind of gaming has even thus much to...
Seite 436 - Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled...
Seite 496 - If your treasure be in the world, so is the love of your hearts. And if ye love the world, and the things of the world, the love of God is not in you ; and the love of God is the love of his commandments ; and he that loveth not God's commandments...
Seite 354 - God is the God of the Gentiles, as well as of the Jews; and has concluded them all in unbelief, only that he might have mercy upon all.
Seite 438 - The prediction of Ifaiah is ftill clearer : ch. ix. 6, 7. " unto us a child is born, unto us a fon is " given, and the government fhall be upon his fhoulders ; and his " name fhall be called * Wonderful, Counfellor, the Mighty God, ." the Everlafting Father, the Prince of Peace : of the increafe of " his government and peace there fhall be no end, upon the throne