The Constitution of ManMarsh, Capen, Lyon and Webb, 1841 - 436 Seiten |
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... Creator and the situation of man have been judged of ignorantly and rashly . The skeptic has advanc- ed arguments against religion , and crafty deceivers have , in all ages , founded systems of superstition , on the disor- der and ...
... Creator and the situation of man have been judged of ignorantly and rashly . The skeptic has advanc- ed arguments against religion , and crafty deceivers have , in all ages , founded systems of superstition , on the disor- der and ...
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... Creator , moral sentiments and reflecting faculties , which not only place him above all other creatures on earth , but constitute him a different being from any of them , a rational and accountable creature . These faculties are his ...
... Creator , moral sentiments and reflecting faculties , which not only place him above all other creatures on earth , but constitute him a different being from any of them , a rational and accountable creature . These faculties are his ...
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... we know the nature of our fellows , and act with a habitual regard to the relations established by the Creator between ourselves and them . Man , ignorant and uncivilized , is a ferocious , 8 VIEW OF the constitution of human nature ,
... we know the nature of our fellows , and act with a habitual regard to the relations established by the Creator between ourselves and them . Man , ignorant and uncivilized , is a ferocious , 8 VIEW OF the constitution of human nature ,
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... Creator , and in joy and gladness desires to study the Creator's works , to ascertain his laws , and to yield to them a steady and a willing obedience . Without undervaluing the pleasures of his animal nature , he tastes the higher ...
... Creator , and in joy and gladness desires to study the Creator's works , to ascertain his laws , and to yield to them a steady and a willing obedience . Without undervaluing the pleasures of his animal nature , he tastes the higher ...
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... Creator , having designed a higher path for him than for the lower creatures , has given him intellect to dis- cover his own nature and that of external objects , and left him , by the exercise of that intellect , to find out for him ...
... Creator , having designed a higher path for him than for the lower creatures , has given him intellect to dis- cover his own nature and that of external objects , and left him , by the exercise of that intellect , to find out for him ...
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Seite 365 - Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Seite 370 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves : which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
Seite 372 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, " Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, " Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like...
Seite 44 - The Principles of Physiology, applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education.
Seite 368 - A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good ; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil : for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Seite 308 - I know not that we have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And by prudence and care we may, for the most part, pass our days in tolerable ease and quiet ; or, on the contrary, we may, by rashness, ungoverned passion, wilfulness, or even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please.
Seite 90 - ... for the first time, you at once derive some gratification from the sight being new ; your attention is awakened, and you desire to know more about it. If it is a piece of workmanship, as an instrument, a machine of any kind, you wish to know how it is made ; how it works ; and what use it is of.
Seite 158 - Never was any man more civil and obliging, and more free from jealousy, dissimulation, and envy, than Melancthon: he was humble, Fig. 4. MELANCTHON. modest, disinterested in the extreme; in a word, he possessed wonderful talents, and most noble dispositions. His greatest enemies have been forced to acknowledge that the annals of antiquity exhibit very few worthies who may be compared with him, whether extent of knowledge in things human and divine, or quickness of comprehension and fertility of genius,...
Seite 90 - If you see another instrument or animal, in some respects like it, but differing in other particulars, you find it pleasing to compare them together, and to note in what they agree, and in what they differ. Now, all this kind of gratification is of a pure and disinterested nature, and has no reference to any of the common purposes of life ; yet it is a pleasure — an enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for it ; you...
Seite 48 - It has been computed by some political arithmetician, that, if every man and woman would work for four hours each day on something useful, that labor would produce sufficient to procure all the necessaries and comforts of life, want and misery would be banished out of the world, and the rest of the twenty-four hours might be leisure and pleasure.