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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... Action and reaction are equal in the moral as in the na- tural world . Clarkson . Le triomphe de la lumière sera toujours favorable à la grandeur et à l'amélioration de l'espèce humaine . Mme de Stael . Nulle erreur ne peut être utile ...
... Action and reaction are equal in the moral as in the na- tural world . Clarkson . Le triomphe de la lumière sera toujours favorable à la grandeur et à l'amélioration de l'espèce humaine . Mme de Stael . Nulle erreur ne peut être utile ...
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... actions through the day , And where your thoughts have trac'd their way . What know I more , that's worth the knowing ? What have I done , that's worth the doing ? What have I sought , that I should shun ? What duty have I left undone ...
... actions through the day , And where your thoughts have trac'd their way . What know I more , that's worth the knowing ? What have I done , that's worth the doing ? What have I sought , that I should shun ? What duty have I left undone ...
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... , and spoil its use ? Now things that can be thus disturb'd , that cease From usual actions , by such lets as these , Would die , suppose the force or strokes increase . And since our minds as well as bodies feel The LUCRETIUS '
... , and spoil its use ? Now things that can be thus disturb'd , that cease From usual actions , by such lets as these , Would die , suppose the force or strokes increase . And since our minds as well as bodies feel The LUCRETIUS '
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... actions past , " Tis almost dead , and sure can die at last . Well , then , the former soul must needs be dead , And that which now informs us , newly made . But when the body's made , when we begin To view the light , if then the soul ...
... actions past , " Tis almost dead , and sure can die at last . Well , then , the former soul must needs be dead , And that which now informs us , newly made . But when the body's made , when we begin To view the light , if then the soul ...
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... and exerts himself at random , without any regard to the consequence ; whereas every , the most minute , action ought to be directed to some end or use ful purpose . Now the chief end of every rational STOIC PHILOSOPHY . 39.
... and exerts himself at random , without any regard to the consequence ; whereas every , the most minute , action ought to be directed to some end or use ful purpose . Now the chief end of every rational STOIC PHILOSOPHY . 39.
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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.