A treatise on the records of the Creation, and on the moral attributes of the Creator, Volume 2 |
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... follow him to his feast , which has no object but intemperate excess , and is succeeded by a deathlike torpor ; or watch him when roused by hostility from his indolence , cherishing even by artificial means , hatred and revenge , and ...
... follow him to his feast , which has no object but intemperate excess , and is succeeded by a deathlike torpor ; or watch him when roused by hostility from his indolence , cherishing even by artificial means , hatred and revenge , and ...
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... follow that it would con- tinue , if the principle itself were removed . That natural and spirit - stirring desire is the nourishment of the body politic ; it is the fer- tilizing source which supplies the juices to the tree ; and ...
... follow that it would con- tinue , if the principle itself were removed . That natural and spirit - stirring desire is the nourishment of the body politic ; it is the fer- tilizing source which supplies the juices to the tree ; and ...
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... follow a certain species of labour , and wherever the inhabitants possess no particular property , the people , preserving for thousands of years the same appearance of external comfort , make almost no advances in moral cultivation ...
... follow a certain species of labour , and wherever the inhabitants possess no particular property , the people , preserving for thousands of years the same appearance of external comfort , make almost no advances in moral cultivation ...
Page 92
... reasonable requital which had been evinced in seasons of public commotion , and practised at the expense of pecu- niary sacrifice and at the risk of personal danger . • It does not follow from this reasoning , that 92 ON THE CONDITION.
... reasonable requital which had been evinced in seasons of public commotion , and practised at the expense of pecu- niary sacrifice and at the risk of personal danger . • It does not follow from this reasoning , that 92 ON THE CONDITION.
Page 93
John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) • It does not follow from this reasoning , that it is the duty of man to expose his moral con- stancy to hazard , or that virtue ought to court danger , and place itself in the midst of volun- tary ...
John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) • It does not follow from this reasoning , that it is the duty of man to expose his moral con- stancy to hazard , or that virtue ought to court danger , and place itself in the midst of volun- tary ...
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Page 128 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 241 - By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: that in blessing I will bless thee...
Page 329 - Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit, primusque per artem Movit agros curis acuens mortalia corda, Nee torpere gravi passus sua regna veterno.
Page 83 - Compared, indeed, with the more extravagant luxury of the great, his accommodation must no doubt appear extremely simple and easy; and yet it may be true, perhaps, that the accommodation of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant, as the accommodation of the latter exceeds that of many an African king, the absolute master of the lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages.
Page 285 - Equidem efferor studio patres vestros, quos colui et dilexi, videndi; neque vero eos solum convenire aveo, quos ipse cognovi, sed illos etiam, de quibus audivi et legi et ipse conscripsi. Quo quidem me proficiscentem haud sane quis facile retraxerit, nec tamquam Peliam recoxerit; et si quis deus mihi largiatur, ut ex hac aetate repuerascam et in cunis vagiam, valde recusem, nec vero velim, quasi decurso spatio, ad carceres a calce revocari.
Page 184 - THE COLONY OF A civilized nation which takes possession, either of a waste country or of one so thinly inhabited, that the natives easily give place to the new settlers, advances more rapidly to wealth and greatness than any other human society.
Page 367 - The Tartar, accustomed to roam over extensive plains, and to subsist on the product of his herds, imprecates upon his enemy, as the greatest of all curses, that he may be condemned to reside in one place, and to be nourished with the top of a weed. The rude Americans, fond of their own pursuits, and satisfied with their own lot, are equally...
Page 239 - Samuel, and of the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Page 336 - Of all obstacles to improvement ignorance is the most formidable, because the only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus, but with a permanent energy.
Page 168 - ... if we examine, I say, all these things, and consider what a variety of labour is employed about each of them, we shall be sensible that without the assistance and cooperation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to, what we very falsely imagine, the easy and simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated.