The Bible of Nature, and Substance of Virtue: Condensed from the Scriptures of Eminent Cosmians, Pantheists and Physiphilanthropists, of Various Ages and Climes ...G. Vale, 1849 - Ethics |
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... according to his circuits . All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full : unto the place from whence the rivers come , thither they return again . The thing that hath been , it is that which shall be ; and that which is ...
... according to his circuits . All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full : unto the place from whence the rivers come , thither they return again . The thing that hath been , it is that which shall be ; and that which is ...
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... according to their kind ; From tenement to tenement is tost , The soul is still the same , the figure only lost : And as the soften'd wax new seals receives , This face assumes , and that impression leaves ; Now call'd by one , now by ...
... according to their kind ; From tenement to tenement is tost , The soul is still the same , the figure only lost : And as the soften'd wax new seals receives , This face assumes , and that impression leaves ; Now call'd by one , now by ...
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... according to their kind ; From tenement to tenement is tost , The soul is still the same , the figure only lost : And as the soften'd wax new seals receives , This face assumes , and that impression leaves ; Now call'd by one , now by ...
... according to their kind ; From tenement to tenement is tost , The soul is still the same , the figure only lost : And as the soften'd wax new seals receives , This face assumes , and that impression leaves ; Now call'd by one , now by ...
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... the end of their days , and see the period of their lives approaching , ought to entertain it contentedly , and not be grieved at it . 1 According to his system , the purpose of philosophy is THE PYTHAGOREAN PHILOSOPHY . 17.
... the end of their days , and see the period of their lives approaching , ought to entertain it contentedly , and not be grieved at it . 1 According to his system , the purpose of philosophy is THE PYTHAGOREAN PHILOSOPHY . 17.
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... According to his system , the purpose of philosophy is to free the mind from all incumbrances , and elevate it to the study of immutable truth , and the knowledge of Na- ture ; and the end of wisdom is , to assimilate the human mind to ...
... According to his system , the purpose of philosophy is to free the mind from all incumbrances , and elevate it to the study of immutable truth , and the knowledge of Na- ture ; and the end of wisdom is , to assimilate the human mind to ...
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Page 107 - To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils, with infinite Manslaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory...
Page 126 - NATURE hath made men so equal in the faculties of the body and mind, as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
Page 147 - there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.