The Analysis of Human Nature: Or, An Investigation of the Means to Improve the Condition of the Poor, and to Promote the Happiness of Mankind in General; Comprising, Also, the Progress and Present State of Political, Moral, and Religious Society, Volume 2W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1818 - Great Britain |
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... wise be disregarded . Protagoras , who was a fashionable and the most considerable teacher of the Sophists , at Athens , had the art of poisoning the minds of youth and of men , or of leading them to whatever principles he pleased , for ...
... wise be disregarded . Protagoras , who was a fashionable and the most considerable teacher of the Sophists , at Athens , had the art of poisoning the minds of youth and of men , or of leading them to whatever principles he pleased , for ...
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... wise , but how it has bettered their condition and circumstances , as well as made them more happy ; for these are- the allurements by which men are caught . And what is it the quality of reputation and general opinion in this respect ...
... wise , but how it has bettered their condition and circumstances , as well as made them more happy ; for these are- the allurements by which men are caught . And what is it the quality of reputation and general opinion in this respect ...
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... are not wholly to be found out , by experience , in this life ; for we see the wicked prosper for a time , whilst the virtuous are in affliction ; therefore , as no one is perfectly wise , so no one is singly capable of EDUCATION.- 21.
... are not wholly to be found out , by experience , in this life ; for we see the wicked prosper for a time , whilst the virtuous are in affliction ; therefore , as no one is perfectly wise , so no one is singly capable of EDUCATION.- 21.
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... wise , so no one is singly capable of teach- ing wisdom , unless he derives his knowledge by in- spiration , or from revelation ; but as this knowledge has been already revealed , as far as man in the pre- sent state of his being is ...
... wise , so no one is singly capable of teach- ing wisdom , unless he derives his knowledge by in- spiration , or from revelation ; but as this knowledge has been already revealed , as far as man in the pre- sent state of his being is ...
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... wise and good government . All should give proofs of their excellence . Revealed religion is founded on stable proofs . Mankind should , therefore , think and act according to those proofs ; for without them men cannot be expected to ...
... wise and good government . All should give proofs of their excellence . Revealed religion is founded on stable proofs . Mankind should , therefore , think and act according to those proofs ; for without them men cannot be expected to ...
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Page 605 - For that which I do I allow not : for what I would, that do I not ; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 605 - For I know that in me (that is in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing, for to •will is present with me; but how to perform that •which is good I find not.
Page 606 - For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Page 606 - The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Page 606 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 45 - And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
Page 607 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Page 44 - Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do : for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
Page 605 - For I delight in the law of God after the inward man : but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 607 - For we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hope : for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.