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Page xiv
... creation . " " In the end , high principle and sound policy will be found in the strictest harmony with each other . " These are precisely the views which it is the object of the present work to enforce ; and it is gratifying to me to ...
... creation . " " In the end , high principle and sound policy will be found in the strictest harmony with each other . " These are precisely the views which it is the object of the present work to enforce ; and it is gratifying to me to ...
Page xv
... creation of man , 4 - Death and reproduction existed long before his creation , 5 - The world ar- ranged so as to afford him every inducement to cultivate and exer- cise his understanding , 6 - Power of man to control and turn to ac ...
... creation of man , 4 - Death and reproduction existed long before his creation , 5 - The world ar- ranged so as to afford him every inducement to cultivate and exer- cise his understanding , 6 - Power of man to control and turn to ac ...
Page xvi
... creation , page 24 — All the departments of nature act according to definite constitutions and fixed laws , imposed by the Deity , 25 - The term law defined and illustrated , 25 - Man's pleasure and pain depend , in this world , up- on ...
... creation , page 24 — All the departments of nature act according to definite constitutions and fixed laws , imposed by the Deity , 25 - The term law defined and illustrated , 25 - Man's pleasure and pain depend , in this world , up- on ...
Page xvii
... Creation so arranged as to invite and encourage exercise of the bodily and mental powers , 77 - The acquisition of knowledge agreeable , 78 - Would intuitive knowledge be more ad- vantageous to man , than the mere capacity which he ...
... Creation so arranged as to invite and encourage exercise of the bodily and mental powers , 77 - The acquisition of knowledge agreeable , 78 - Would intuitive knowledge be more ad- vantageous to man , than the mere capacity which he ...
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... creation ; and the human mind ascends by a chain of correct and rigid induction to a great First Cause , in whom these qualities must reside . But hitherto this great truth has rather excited a barren though sublime ad- miration , than ...
... creation ; and the human mind ascends by a chain of correct and rigid induction to a great First Cause , in whom these qualities must reside . But hitherto this great truth has rather excited a barren though sublime ad- miration , than ...
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Page 322 - And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. For these things were done, that the Scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
Page 316 - Mrs Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings, and making a lather of soap ! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of murders in England closes.
Page 349 - ... authority scowled upon it, and taste was disgusted by it, and fashion was ashamed of it, and all the beauteous speculation of former days was cruelly broken up by this new announcement of the better philosophy, and scattered like the fragments of an aerial vision, over which the past generations of the world had been slumbering their profound and their pleasing reverie.
Page 287 - 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.
Page 322 - Then 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.
Page 287 - The officers sat about, wherever they could find a shelter from the sea, and the men lay down conversing with each other with the most perfect calmness. Each was at peace with his neighbour and all the world, and I am firmly persuaded that the resignation which was then shown to the will of the Almighty, was the means of obtaining his mercy.
Page 272 - And many do please to make themselves extremely miserable, ie, to do what they know beforehand will render them so. They follow those ways the fruit of which they know, by instruction, example, experience, will be disgrace, and poverty, and sickness, and untimely death.
Page 343 - God is related to the universe, as Creator and Preserver; the laws by which he created all things, are those by which he preserves them. He acts according to these rules, because he knows them; he knows them, because he made them; and he made them, because they are relative to his wisdom and power.
Page 343 - Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action ; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational.
Page 42 - 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.