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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... better by no mean , But Nature makes that mean ; - Art does mend Nature , change it rather ; But the art itself is Nature . St. Augustine . Shakespeare . Pope . All are but parts of one stupendous whole , Whose body Nature is , and God ...
... better by no mean , But Nature makes that mean ; - Art does mend Nature , change it rather ; But the art itself is Nature . St. Augustine . Shakespeare . Pope . All are but parts of one stupendous whole , Whose body Nature is , and God ...
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... better , than that a man should rejoice in his own works ; for that is his por- tion ; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him ? Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity ...
... better , than that a man should rejoice in his own works ; for that is his por- tion ; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him ? Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity ...
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... better than a sheep ? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath - days . Wo unto the world because of offences ! For it must needs be that offences come ; but wo to that man by whom the offence cometh ! • Thou shalt do no murder ...
... better than a sheep ? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath - days . Wo unto the world because of offences ! For it must needs be that offences come ; but wo to that man by whom the offence cometh ! • Thou shalt do no murder ...
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... better than a sheep ? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath - days . Wo unto the world because of offences ! For it must needs be that offences come ; but wo to that man by whom the offence cometh ! Thou shalt do no murder ...
... better than a sheep ? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath - days . Wo unto the world because of offences ! For it must needs be that offences come ; but wo to that man by whom the offence cometh ! Thou shalt do no murder ...
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... better to ensure its practice , he even recommended total abstinence from their flesh . His maxims , from their intrinsic value , and their being ar ranged in numbers , were called " Golden Verses ; " the following are a specimen : " Do ...
... better to ensure its practice , he even recommended total abstinence from their flesh . His maxims , from their intrinsic value , and their being ar ranged in numbers , were called " Golden Verses ; " the following are a specimen : " Do ...
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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.