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George Combe. II . Evils from infringement of the Organic Laws . Possibility of enjoying constant health and strength during a long life Bad hereditary constitution of body Insufficiency of food , etc. PAGE 82 84 84 85 86 87 90 90 · 91 ...
George Combe. II . Evils from infringement of the Organic Laws . Possibility of enjoying constant health and strength during a long life Bad hereditary constitution of body Insufficiency of food , etc. PAGE 82 84 84 85 86 87 90 90 · 91 ...
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... enjoy- ment of the animals depends on the adaptation of their constitution to their external condition . The young swallow , when it migrates on the approach of the first winter of its life , is impelled by an instinct im- planted by ...
... enjoy- ment of the animals depends on the adaptation of their constitution to their external condition . The young swallow , when it migrates on the approach of the first winter of its life , is impelled by an instinct im- planted by ...
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... enjoying a life like theirs : he has pleasure in eating , drinking , and sleeping , and in exercising his limbs ; and one of the greatest obstacles to his improve- ment is that many are contented with these enjoyments , and consider it ...
... enjoying a life like theirs : he has pleasure in eating , drinking , and sleeping , and in exercising his limbs ; and one of the greatest obstacles to his improve- ment is that many are contented with these enjoyments , and consider it ...
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... enjoyed . In our own country , two views of the constitution of the world and of human nature have long been prevalent , differing widely from each other , and which , if legitimately followed out , would lead to different practical ...
... enjoyed . In our own country , two views of the constitution of the world and of human nature have long been prevalent , differing widely from each other , and which , if legitimately followed out , would lead to different practical ...
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... enjoy robust health ; while another , if he have in- herited a feeble constitution , and disregarded the laws of diet and exercise , may suffer pain and sickness , although he may be a paragon of every Christian virtue . These results ...
... enjoy robust health ; while another , if he have in- herited a feeble constitution , and disregarded the laws of diet and exercise , may suffer pain and sickness , although he may be a paragon of every Christian virtue . These results ...
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according action activity adapted animal faculties animal propensities appears arranged ascer benevolence bestowed body brain Cassell's causes cloth condition conduct consequences constitution creation Creator death desire discover disease Divine duty effects enjoy enjoyment evil exercise existence external objects feelings GEORGE COMBE gilt gratification happiness harmony higher sentiments ignorance Illustrated improvement individual inflict infringement instance institutions intellectual faculties intellectual laws intelligent intuitive knowledge JULIAN HAWTHORNE knowledge labour laws of nature live lower animals mankind marriage ment mind misery moral and intellectual moral law moral sentiments nations natural laws natural philosophy neglect obedience obey observation offender offspring operation organic laws organised pain parents perceive persons philosophy Phrenology physical laws pleasure possess practical present principle propen punishment qualities race regard relations religion render ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON selfish ship society suffering supremacy T. P. O'CONNOR tion transmitted vessels of wrath views vigour Vols W. W. GREENER
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Page 15 - ... also rewards and punishes actions. If, for example, the pain which we feel, upon doing what tends to the destruction of our bodies, suppose upon too near approaches to fire, or upon wounding ourselves, be appointed by the Author of nature to prevent our doing what thus tends to our destruction, this is altogether as much an instance of his punishing our actions, and consequently of our being under his government, as declaring by a voice from heaven that if we acted so, he would inflict such pain...
Page 15 - 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.
Page 104 - They say nay in a word, but they do so in deed ; for to the one they will gladly give a stipend of two hundred crowns by the year, and loth to offer to the other two hundred shillings. God that sitteth in heaven laugheth their choice to scorn, and rewardeth their liberality as it should. For he suffereth...
Page 212 - Never, perhaps, was witnessed a finer scene than on the deck of my little ship, when all hope of life had left us. Noble as the character of the British sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible that amongst forty-one persons not one repining word should have been uttered.