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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... continual wars , Which sour'd the sweet of life with constant fears ; Because diffusive wrong can spread o'er all , No state secure , nay oft the wrongs recoil , With double force on the contrivers fall : Nor can those men expect to ...
... continual wars , Which sour'd the sweet of life with constant fears ; Because diffusive wrong can spread o'er all , No state secure , nay oft the wrongs recoil , With double force on the contrivers fall : Nor can those men expect to ...
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... continual changes or migrations from one body to another , why should any one be apprehensive of an injury from the change of the whole ? It is agreeable to the course of Na- ture ; and what is such , cannot be evil . On We are all born ...
... continual changes or migrations from one body to another , why should any one be apprehensive of an injury from the change of the whole ? It is agreeable to the course of Na- ture ; and what is such , cannot be evil . On We are all born ...
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... continual changes , not only of the elements , but of those things which are composed of those elements , in a perpetual circle of successive generation and corruption . You have a fixed period assigned you , which if you do not improve ...
... continual changes , not only of the elements , but of those things which are composed of those elements , in a perpetual circle of successive generation and corruption . You have a fixed period assigned you , which if you do not improve ...
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... continual change and fluctuation , as time is by perpetual succession . Who then would set any great value on things thus floating down the stream , and of which we cannot for a moment secure the possession ? One might as well fall in ...
... continual change and fluctuation , as time is by perpetual succession . Who then would set any great value on things thus floating down the stream , and of which we cannot for a moment secure the possession ? One might as well fall in ...
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... continual state of alteration , and , in some respect , of corrup tion ; and so indeed is the whole Universe . Leave the sins of others to their own consciences . The cessation of any action , the suppression of any violent appetite ...
... continual state of alteration , and , in some respect , of corrup tion ; and so indeed is the whole Universe . Leave the sins of others to their own consciences . The cessation of any action , the suppression of any violent appetite ...
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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.