The Critical Review, Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1807 |
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... moral reasoning of individuals , and the influence of it on private conduct , are not binding on the sovereign . This impious and detestable doctrine has shared the fate it merited , when acted on . The people possess- ed too much good ...
... moral reasoning of individuals , and the influence of it on private conduct , are not binding on the sovereign . This impious and detestable doctrine has shared the fate it merited , when acted on . The people possess- ed too much good ...
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... moral evil without furnishing him with its appropriate moral re- medy . In the revolutions that have changed the face of empires , Provi- dence has not been culpable . In permitting evil , she condemns those who commitit . By the wise ...
... moral evil without furnishing him with its appropriate moral re- medy . In the revolutions that have changed the face of empires , Provi- dence has not been culpable . In permitting evil , she condemns those who commitit . By the wise ...
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... moral depravity conse quent upon the fall as acting by itself : he is responsible for the alleviations provided , and the use he makes of them . The latter part of the chapter is employed in computing the theories of the publicists on ...
... moral depravity conse quent upon the fall as acting by itself : he is responsible for the alleviations provided , and the use he makes of them . The latter part of the chapter is employed in computing the theories of the publicists on ...
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... moral relations neces- sarily arose out of the natural relations subsisting between parent and child , which are essential to the continuance of the species , we have strong grounds for deducing the origin of society from the creation ...
... moral relations neces- sarily arose out of the natural relations subsisting between parent and child , which are essential to the continuance of the species , we have strong grounds for deducing the origin of society from the creation ...
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... moral questions . Morality rests on principles applicable in all cases : yet to us it is so difficult to shape the application of them , that in few cases can we make extensive conclusions ; in still fewer are they general ; and in the ...
... moral questions . Morality rests on principles applicable in all cases : yet to us it is so difficult to shape the application of them , that in few cases can we make extensive conclusions ; in still fewer are they general ; and in the ...
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Seite 353 - It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our states are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats.
Seite 353 - I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
Seite 353 - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Seite 353 - I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For, having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Seite 354 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it would, with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility, and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.
Seite 354 - Much of the strength and efficiency of any government in procuring and securing happiness to the people depends on opinion, on the general opinion of the goodness of that government as well as of the wisdom and integrity of its governors.
Seite 243 - God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
Seite 125 - See all its store of inland waters hurl'd In one vast volume down Niagara's steep, Or calm behold them, in transparent sleep, Where the blue hills of old Toronto shed Their evening shadows o'er Ontario's bed...
Seite 353 - Constitution: for when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.
Seite 353 - But though many private persons think almost as highly of their own infallibility as of that of their sect, few express it so naturally as a certain French lady, who in a dispute with her sister, said: 'I don't know how it happens, sister, but I meet with nobody but myself that is always in the right.