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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 acquir ...
... 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 acquir ...
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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 sanie , 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 sanie , as hath been already in good part done . Surely in councils concerning religion , that counsel of the ...
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Page 169 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Page 472 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. 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 283 - 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: but one thing is most admirable, wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship, which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in...
Page 13 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 104 - 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 36 - 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 286 - 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 345 - Discretion of speech is more than eloquence ; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
Page 550 - Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice; and an overspeaking judge is no well tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar ; or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short, or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
Page 86 - Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away: and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen: for charity will hardly water the ground, where it must first fill a pool.