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... individuals of the poorer classes and Mechanics ' Institutions , & c . " As soon as it was ascertained that even this work could be produced and sold without loss , in a cheap form , I made no farther demands on them for the expenses of ...
... individuals of the poorer classes and Mechanics ' Institutions , & c . " As soon as it was ascertained that even this work could be produced and sold without loss , in a cheap form , I made no farther demands on them for the expenses of ...
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... individual friends , and gave the following instructions regarding the application of the residue of his funds . 66 And , lastly , the whole residue of my means and estate shall , after answering the purposes above written , be applied ...
... individual friends , and gave the following instructions regarding the application of the residue of his funds . 66 And , lastly , the whole residue of my means and estate shall , after answering the purposes above written , be applied ...
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... individual and national conduct . But although my purpose is practical , a theory of Mind forms an essential element ... Individuals , under the impulse of passion , or by the direction of intellect , will hope , fear , wonder , perceive ...
... individual and national conduct . But although my purpose is practical , a theory of Mind forms an essential element ... Individuals , under the impulse of passion , or by the direction of intellect , will hope , fear , wonder , perceive ...
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... individuals , whose piety is entitled to respect , conceive , that as the great revolu tions of human society , as well as all events in the lives of individuals , take place under the guidance of the Deity , it is presumptuous , if not ...
... individuals , whose piety is entitled to respect , conceive , that as the great revolu tions of human society , as well as all events in the lives of individuals , take place under the guidance of the Deity , it is presumptuous , if not ...
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... individuals of these several generations ! If , in the savage state , the internal faculties of man were in harmony among themselves , and if his exter- nal condition was in accordance with them , he must then have enjoyed all the ...
... individuals of these several generations ! If , in the savage state , the internal faculties of man were in harmony among themselves , and if his exter- nal condition was in accordance with them , he must then have enjoyed all the ...
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Page 8 - 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...
Page 95 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Page 81 - ... may, by rashness, ungoverned passion, wilfulness, or even, by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please. 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 103 - ... 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 85 - 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 44 - I cannot forbear to flatter myself, that prudence and benevolence will make marriage happy. The general folly of mankind is the cause of general complaint. What can be expected but disappointment and repentance from a choice made in the immaturity of youth, in the ardour of desire, without judgment, without foresight, without inquiry after conformity of opinions similarity of manners, rectitude of judgment, or purity of sentiment ? • " Such is the common process of marriage.
Page 81 - I know not that we have any one kind or degree of enjoyment but by the means of our own actions. And by prudence and care we may, for the most part, pass our days in tolerable ease and quiet : or, on the contrary, we may, by rashness, ungoverned passion, wilfulness, or even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please.
Page 13 - 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. And from the idea itself it will as fully appear, that this our nature, ie constitution, is adapted to virtue, as from the idea of a watch it appears, that its nature, ie constitution or system, is adapted to measure time.
Page 10 - 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.
Page 2 - Philosophy," says Mr. Stewart, " is to ascertain the general rules of a wise and virtuous conduct in life, in so far as these rules may be discovered by the unassisted light of nature; that is, by an examination of the principles of the human constitution, and of the circumstances in which Man is placed."* By following this method of inquiry, Dr.