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" Experience shows, that the knowledge of morality, by mere natural light, .(how agreeable soever it be to it,) makes but a slow progress, and little advance in the world. "
Locke - Page 71
by Samuel Alexander - 1908 - 90 pages
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Natural Religion Insufficient, and Revealed Necessary, to Man's Happiness in ...

Thomas Halyburton - Deism - 1812 - 414 pages
...their own contemplations did not, and possibly never would " have helped them to. Experience shews, that the knowledge of " morality, by mere natural...but a slow progress and little advance in the world: " Whatever was the cause, it is plain in fact, that human reason, " unassisted, failed men in its great...
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Natural Religion Insufficient, and Revealed Necessary, to Man's Happiness in ...

Thomas Halyburton - Deism - 1812 - 438 pages
...their own contemplations did not, and possibly never would " have helped them to. Experience shews, that the knowledge of, ** morality, by mere natural...but a slow progress and little advance in the world : " Whatever was the cause, it is plain in feet, that human reason, " unassisted, failed men in its...
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The Works of John Locke, in Nine Volumes, Volume 6

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1824 - 448 pages
...thinking of? Which yet their own contemplations did not, and possibly never would have helped them to. Experience shows, that the knowledge of morality,...progress, and little advance in the world. And the reaspn of it is not hard to be found in men's necessities, passions, vices, and mistaken interests...
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The reasonableness of Christianity. A vindication of the Reasonableness of ...

John Locke - Coinage - 1824 - 448 pages
...thinking of? Which yet their own contemplations did not, and possibly never would have helped them to. Experience shows, that the knowledge \ of morality, by mere natural light, (how agreeable so| ever it be to it,) makes but a slow progress, and little \ advance in the world. And the reason...
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Standard Works, Volumes 1-20

1835 - 612 pages
...thinking of? Which yet their own contemplations did not, and possibly never would have helped them to. Experience shows, that the knowledge of morality,...but a slow progress and little advance in the world : whatever was the cause, it is plain in fact, that human reason, unassisted, failed men in its great...
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Sacred Pneumatology; Or, The Scripture Doctrine of the Holy Spirit; in Three ...

Joseph Wilson (Minister of Laxton.) - Holy Spirit - 1836 - 408 pages
...mine, as we, who have it delivered, ready dug and fashioned into our hands, are apt to imagine. .. .Experience shows, that the knowledge of morality,...progress and little advance in the world .... And it is plain, in fact, that human reason unassisted, failed men in its great and proper business of...
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The Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity, Volume 25

Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1836 - 360 pages
...thinking of? which yet their own contemplations did not, and possibly never would have helped them to. Experience shows that the knowledge of morality, by...it,) makes but a slow progress, and little advance in the'world: and the reason of it is not hard to be found in men's necessities, passions, vices, and...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...thinking of! which jet their own contemplations did not and possibly never would have helped them to. Experience shows that the knowledge of morality, by...in the world. And the reason of it is not hard to bo found in men's necessities, passions, vices, and mistaken interests, which turn their thoughts another...
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Twelve Years in China: The People, the Rebels, and the Mandarins

John Scarth - China - 1860 - 404 pages
...the wonder of the age, and the destiny of millions is at stake. " Experience shows," says Locke, " that the knowledge of morality by mere natural light...a slow progress, and little advance in the world. The greater part of mankind want leisure or capacity for demonstration, nor can carry a train of proofs,...
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The World's Cyclopedia of Biography, Volume 3

Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...who have it delivered already dug and fashioned into our hands, are apt to imagine ; " moreover, " experience shows that the knowledge of morality by...a slow progress, and little advance in the world." The evidence of Christ's mission is to be found in the miracles, the occurrence and the divine origin...
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