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... Moral Sciences the ground seems never to be incontestably won ; and this is peculiarly the case with respect to the sciences which are subsidiary to the arts of administration and legislation . Opinions prevail , and are acted on . The ...
... Moral Sciences the ground seems never to be incontestably won ; and this is peculiarly the case with respect to the sciences which are subsidiary to the arts of administration and legislation . Opinions prevail , and are acted on . The ...
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... moral or intellectual defect or error to reassert the exploded doctrine . They have become entangled by some logical fallacy , or deceived by some inaccurate or incomplete . assumption of facts , or think that they see the means of ...
... moral or intellectual defect or error to reassert the exploded doctrine . They have become entangled by some logical fallacy , or deceived by some inaccurate or incomplete . assumption of facts , or think that they see the means of ...
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... moral virtue in receiving truth ; for it may happen that our interest , or our wishes , are in the same direction ; or it may be forced upon us by evidence as irresistible as that of a mathematical demonstration . The virtue consists in ...
... moral virtue in receiving truth ; for it may happen that our interest , or our wishes , are in the same direction ; or it may be forced upon us by evidence as irresistible as that of a mathematical demonstration . The virtue consists in ...
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... moral , or religious , we manifest a want of faith in God's power , or in his will to maintain his own cause . There may be danger attend- ant on every truth , since there is none that may not be per- verted by some , or that may not ...
... moral , or religious , we manifest a want of faith in God's power , or in his will to maintain his own cause . There may be danger attend- ant on every truth , since there is none that may not be per- verted by some , or that may not ...
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... moral , as by their mercury rod to damn and send to hell for ever , those facts and opinions tending to the support of the same , as hath been already in good part done . Surely in councils concerning religion , that counsel of the ...
... moral , as by their mercury rod to damn and send to hell for ever , those facts and opinions tending to the support of the same , as hath been already in good part done . Surely in councils concerning religion , that counsel of the ...
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Page 428 - For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 131 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 400 - God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 545 - Farewell, Monsieur Traveller : look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country, be out of love with your nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are ; or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.
Page 79 - There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable; as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
Page 80 - Men in great place are thrice servants ; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.
Page 16 - For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
Page 256 - A man hath a body, and that body is confined to a place; but where friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise them by his friend.
Page 253 - The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true : Cor ne edito, "Eat not the heart." Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Page 64 - ... to marry when he will : but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry. " A " young man not yet, an elder man not at all.