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... reflection . Moral and Intellectual Laws • Independence of the Natural Laws Obedience to each Law attended with its own good , and dis- obedience with its own evil , consequences Their harmony with the constitution of Man 13 15 16 17 18 ...
... reflection . Moral and Intellectual Laws • Independence of the Natural Laws Obedience to each Law attended with its own good , and dis- obedience with its own evil , consequences Their harmony with the constitution of Man 13 15 16 17 18 ...
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... reflecting faculties , which not only place him above all other creatures on earth , but constitute him a dif- ferent being from any of them - a rational and accountable being . These faculties are his best and highest gifts , and the ...
... reflecting faculties , which not only place him above all other creatures on earth , but constitute him a dif- ferent being from any of them - a rational and accountable being . These faculties are his best and highest gifts , and the ...
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... reflection , they operated chiefly as blind impulses . His habits were savage , because at first his animal propensities were not directed by the moral sentiments or enlightened by reflection . He next assumed the condition of the ...
... reflection , they operated chiefly as blind impulses . His habits were savage , because at first his animal propensities were not directed by the moral sentiments or enlightened by reflection . He next assumed the condition of the ...
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... reflection in Man . There is , for example , a definite constitution and function assigned by Nature to the lungs ; certain gaseous fluids have been created , some of which when breathed vivify the blood and strengthen all the organs ...
... reflection in Man . There is , for example , a definite constitution and function assigned by Nature to the lungs ; certain gaseous fluids have been created , some of which when breathed vivify the blood and strengthen all the organs ...
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... reflection or con- science , that we get the idea of the system or constitution of human nature . And from the idea itself it will as fully appear that this our nature , .e . , constitution , is adapted to virtue , as from the idea of a ...
... reflection or con- science , that we get the idea of the system or constitution of human nature . And from the idea itself it will as fully appear that this our nature , .e . , constitution , is adapted to virtue , as from the idea of a ...
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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.