The Temple of Truth: Or, The Best System of Reason, Philosophy, Virtue, and Morals, Analytically Arranged |
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... pride of fancied superiority , upon the rational endowments of his great predecessors , Socrates and Plato . And yet , are we not , even now , with all the advantages accruing from many intervenient centuries , as much in the dark , as ...
... pride of fancied superiority , upon the rational endowments of his great predecessors , Socrates and Plato . And yet , are we not , even now , with all the advantages accruing from many intervenient centuries , as much in the dark , as ...
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... pride : others , by indulging our selfish passions : others , by all the arts of sophistry and others , by seducing our imagination . These , however , should only serve to place us the more on our guard , and arm us with greater ...
... pride : others , by indulging our selfish passions : others , by all the arts of sophistry and others , by seducing our imagination . These , however , should only serve to place us the more on our guard , and arm us with greater ...
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... pride , which human vanity is too apt to cherish , and sometimes is so infatuated as to defend , with all the arts of sophistry and eloquence , Among the peculiars of modern eccen- tricity , and the numerous obligations we are under to ...
... pride , which human vanity is too apt to cherish , and sometimes is so infatuated as to defend , with all the arts of sophistry and eloquence , Among the peculiars of modern eccen- tricity , and the numerous obligations we are under to ...
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... pride . " BACON'S ESSAYS ; I perfectly agree with a philosophical writer , whom I cannot always approve , when he says , " A careful ob- servation of Truth , the way to Happiness , and the prac- tice of Reason , are in the issue the ...
... pride . " BACON'S ESSAYS ; I perfectly agree with a philosophical writer , whom I cannot always approve , when he says , " A careful ob- servation of Truth , the way to Happiness , and the prac- tice of Reason , are in the issue the ...
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... Pride , and the excellence of Humility . * to a rational Being , and that divine Grace is essential to the formation of the christian Character : so here , I mean to afirm , that Glory , Honour , and Immortality in a future state , are ...
... Pride , and the excellence of Humility . * to a rational Being , and that divine Grace is essential to the formation of the christian Character : so here , I mean to afirm , that Glory , Honour , and Immortality in a future state , are ...
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Page 209 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Page 352 - God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but have life everlasting.
Page 360 - Which say to the seers, See not; And to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, Speak unto us smooth things, Prophesy deceits...
Page 163 - Christ, who, though he was rich, yet for our " sakes became poor, that we, through his poverty,
Page 514 - But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that, according as it is written, 'He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
Page 328 - He is the happy man whose life e'en now Shows somewhat of that happier life to come ; Who, doom'd to an obscure but tranquil state, Is pleased with it, and, were he free to choose, Would make his fate his choice; whom peace, the fruit Of virtue, and whom virtue, fruit of faith, Prepare for happiness ; bespeak him one Content indeed to sojourn while he must Below the skies, but having there his home.
Page 25 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below"; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 142 - O Son, in whom my soul hath chief delight, Son of my bosom, Son who art alone ' My word, my wisdom, and effectual might, All hast thou spoken as my thoughts are, all As my eternal purpose hath decreed...
Page 243 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
Page 215 - Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin.