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... duties . the remaining years of my professorship , my leisure was occupied with lectures on Rhetoric and Natural Theology , in connection with extra duties imposed by the declining health of Dr. Griffin . Subsequently , and till 1855 ...
... duties . the remaining years of my professorship , my leisure was occupied with lectures on Rhetoric and Natural Theology , in connection with extra duties imposed by the declining health of Dr. Griffin . Subsequently , and till 1855 ...
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... duty was in the class - room , my strength sim- ply sufficed for the demands of the passing day . In 1855 the Rhetoric of the class passed into other hands , but so much of work still remained that a revision of the Lectures was not ...
... duty was in the class - room , my strength sim- ply sufficed for the demands of the passing day . In 1855 the Rhetoric of the class passed into other hands , but so much of work still remained that a revision of the Lectures was not ...
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... DUTY ? .205 LECTURE X. RECTITUDE AND VIRTUE . RELATIONS . - EXPEDIENCY , PRUDENCE , AND VIRTUE.ORIGIN OF MORAL DISTINCTIONS AS RELATED TO THE DIVINE COINCIDENCE OF INSTINCT AND REASON OF FAITH AND NATURE . — REASON OF PHILOSOPHY AND ...
... DUTY ? .205 LECTURE X. RECTITUDE AND VIRTUE . RELATIONS . - EXPEDIENCY , PRUDENCE , AND VIRTUE.ORIGIN OF MORAL DISTINCTIONS AS RELATED TO THE DIVINE COINCIDENCE OF INSTINCT AND REASON OF FAITH AND NATURE . — REASON OF PHILOSOPHY AND ...
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... duty under the same science because they both belong to the mind . A third cause of the slower progress of moral science is its greater complexity . All science supposes uniformity in the phenomena , and so , in their cause or law ...
... duty under the same science because they both belong to the mind . A third cause of the slower progress of moral science is its greater complexity . All science supposes uniformity in the phenomena , and so , in their cause or law ...
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... they can be strengthened in no other way ; and they are exercised right- ly only by doing just the work which God intended they should do . The moral powers , as a whole , can be so exer- cised as to improve them only as duty is accepted.
... they can be strengthened in no other way ; and they are exercised right- ly only by doing just the work which God intended they should do . The moral powers , as a whole , can be so exer- cised as to improve them only as duty is accepted.
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Page 121 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king...
Page 291 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 121 - The needy traveller, serene and gay, Walks the wild heath, and sings his toil away : Does envy seize thee ? crush th...
Page 121 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 121 - And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Page 66 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Page 200 - Honor and wealth, with all his worth and pains ! It seems a story from the world of spirits When any man obtains that which he merits, Or any merits that which he obtains.
Page 85 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 170 - The will, and the affections of the soul, are not two faculties; the affections are not essentially distinct from the will, nor do they differ from the mere actings of the will, and inclination of the soul, but only in the liveliness and sensibleness of exercise.
Page 203 - Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.