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... thing sought for , the acquisition of it , and the enjoyment resulting from its possession . And what is thus true of our corporeal pleasures , taken in their lowest stage , is still no less true of them in their highest , however ...
... thing sought for , the acquisition of it , and the enjoyment resulting from its possession . And what is thus true of our corporeal pleasures , taken in their lowest stage , is still no less true of them in their highest , however ...
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... things , would appear to be necessarily impassive in his nature ; since it seems impossible to suppose that any created object can be endued with such qualities as to react forcibly , and by external agency , upon the volition of its ...
... things , would appear to be necessarily impassive in his nature ; since it seems impossible to suppose that any created object can be endued with such qualities as to react forcibly , and by external agency , upon the volition of its ...
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... thing , his own moral sense , and all his better and sublimer feelings , inculcate the directly opposite conclusion ... things of this life ? Why did an almighty and all - benevolent Being ( for such a Deity he professes to acknowledge ) ...
... thing , his own moral sense , and all his better and sublimer feelings , inculcate the directly opposite conclusion ... things of this life ? Why did an almighty and all - benevolent Being ( for such a Deity he professes to acknowledge ) ...
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... thing towards its removal ? The rationalist may , indeed , shut his eyes , and choose not to see , or he may otherwise occupy his thoughts and may really be not aware of the dark . ness involved in the foregoing questions , but most ...
... thing towards its removal ? The rationalist may , indeed , shut his eyes , and choose not to see , or he may otherwise occupy his thoughts and may really be not aware of the dark . ness involved in the foregoing questions , but most ...
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... things , as a whole , are admitted to have been formed . Now if the whole course of this inquiry , from the very first surmises of human reason to the profoundest dogmás of revelation , is necessarily one of embarrass- ment WITH HUMAN ...
... things , as a whole , are admitted to have been formed . Now if the whole course of this inquiry , from the very first surmises of human reason to the profoundest dogmás of revelation , is necessarily one of embarrass- ment WITH HUMAN ...
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Page 124 - A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name.
Page 89 - And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day...
Page 142 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 89 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 60 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil ; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree -of life, and eat, and live for ever...
Page 153 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 91 - Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: at his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.
Page 141 - And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish ; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
Page 91 - ... When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Page 244 - They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.