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... say that a new truth has been presented in the following work . The parts have nearly all been admitted and employed again and again , by writers on morals , from the time of Socrates down to the present day . In this respect , there is ...
... say that a new truth has been presented in the following work . The parts have nearly all been admitted and employed again and again , by writers on morals , from the time of Socrates down to the present day . In this respect , there is ...
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... say that we are commanded by Divine authority to observe and inquire into the causes that operate in us and around us , and into the results that naturally follow , and to modify our conduct according to the discoveries which we shall ...
... say that we are commanded by Divine authority to observe and inquire into the causes that operate in us and around us , and into the results that naturally follow , and to modify our conduct according to the discoveries which we shall ...
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... says Professor Ansted , * " to the number and variety of the remains of animal and vegetable existence . At one time we see before us , ex- tracted from a solid mass of rock , a model of the softest , most delicate , and least easily ...
... says Professor Ansted , * " to the number and variety of the remains of animal and vegetable existence . At one time we see before us , ex- tracted from a solid mass of rock , a model of the softest , most delicate , and least easily ...
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... says Lyell , " on the proofs of the low antiquity of our species , for it is not controverted by any experienced geologist . It is never pretended that our race co - existed with assemblages of animals and plants , of which all or even ...
... says Lyell , " on the proofs of the low antiquity of our species , for it is not controverted by any experienced geologist . It is never pretended that our race co - existed with assemblages of animals and plants , of which all or even ...
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... says he , " has increased from age to age , with the number of masters , and with the pro- gress of knowledge ; and Europe , which at present possesses libraries filled with philosophical works , and which reckons up almost as many ...
... says he , " has increased from age to age , with the number of masters , and with the pro- gress of knowledge ; and Europe , which at present possesses libraries filled with philosophical works , and which reckons up almost as many ...
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Seite 26 - Nature's acting upon us every moment which we feel it, or to his having at once contrived and executed his own part in the plan of the world, makes no alteration as to the matter before us.
Seite 35 - It is from considering the relations which the several appetites and passions in the inward frame have to each other, and, above all, the supremacy of reflection or conscience, that we get the idea of the system or constitution of human nature.
Seite 26 - An Author of nature being supposed, it is not so much a deduction of reason, as a matter of experience, that we are thus under his government : under his government in the same sense as we are under the government of civil magistrates. Because the annexing pleasure to some actions, and pain to others, in our power to do or forbear, and giving notice of this appointment beforehand to those whom it concerns ; is the proper formal notion of government.
Seite 32 - ... it. But either of these (and still more both of them) being too much to be attributed to accident, nothing remains but the first supposition, that God, when he created the human species, wished their happiness ; and made for them the provision which he has made, with that view, and for that purpose.
Seite 1 - ... laws take place, without interposing at all, after they had passed them ; without a trial, and the formalities of an execution: if they were able to make their laws execute themselves, or every offender to execute them upon himself, we should be just in the same sense under their government then, as we are now ; but in a much higher degree, and more perfect manner.
Seite 158 - A provision of a very simple kind is also, in some cases, made to prevent the male and female blossoms of the same plant from breeding together, this being found to hurt the breed of vegetables, just as breeding in and in does the breed of animals. It is contrived that the dust shall be shed by the male blossom before the female is ready to be affected by it, so that the impregnation must be performed by the dust of some other plant, and in this way the breed be crossed.
Seite 35 - Mankind has various instincts and principles of action, as brute creatures have; some leading most directly and immediately to the good of the community, and some most directly to private good. 'Man has several which brutes have not; particularly reflection or conscience, an approbation of some principles or actions, and disapprobation of others.
Seite 313 - It was remarked by the celebrated Esquirol, ' that the children whose existence dated from the horrors of the first French Revolution, turned out to be weak, nervous, and irritable in mind, extremely susceptible of impressions, and liable to be thrown by the least extraordinary excitement into absolute insanity.
Seite 13 - On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of digestion, and thereby of conversion ; the construction of the hand of man, and an infinite variety of other arguments; as also by discoveries ancient and modern, in arts, sciences, and the whole extent of literature.
Seite 267 - ... has not yet been in general use for many years, and the author was one of a numerous crew who probably owed their preservation to its almost miraculous warning. It was in a southern latitude. The sun had just set with placid appearance, closing a beautiful afternoon, and the usual mirth of the evening watch was proceeding, when the captain's order came to prepare with all haste for a storm. The barometer had begun to fall with appalling rapidity. As yet, the oldest sailors...