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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... their god's command ; While he discours'd of heav'n's mysterious laws , The world's original , and Nature's cause . He first the taste of flesh from tables drove ,. FROM DRYDEN S OVID . FROM DRYDEN S OVID . BIBLE OF NATURE . ...
... their god's command ; While he discours'd of heav'n's mysterious laws , The world's original , and Nature's cause . He first the taste of flesh from tables drove ,. FROM DRYDEN S OVID . FROM DRYDEN S OVID . BIBLE OF NATURE . ...
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... flesh from tables drove , And argu'd well , if arguments could move : " O mortals , from your fellows ' blood abstain , Nor taint your bodies with a food profane : While corn and pulse by nature are bestow'd , And planted orchards bend ...
... flesh from tables drove , And argu'd well , if arguments could move : " O mortals , from your fellows ' blood abstain , Nor taint your bodies with a food profane : While corn and pulse by nature are bestow'd , And planted orchards bend ...
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... flesh , he stretch'd necessity to sin . To kill man - killers , man has lawful pow'r , But not th ' extended license to devour . Ill habits gather by unseen degrees , As brooks make rivers , rivers run to seas . The sow , with her broad ...
... flesh , he stretch'd necessity to sin . To kill man - killers , man has lawful pow'r , But not th ' extended license to devour . Ill habits gather by unseen degrees , As brooks make rivers , rivers run to seas . The sow , with her broad ...
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... flesh . His maxims , from their intrinsic value , and their being ar ranged in numbers , were called " Golden Verses ; " the following are a specimen : " Do that which you think to be right , whatever the vulgar may think of you ; if ...
... flesh . His maxims , from their intrinsic value , and their being ar ranged in numbers , were called " Golden Verses ; " the following are a specimen : " Do that which you think to be right , whatever the vulgar may think of you ; if ...
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... flesh , and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince ; it came from heaven , and to heaven it must return ; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity , which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys , in some degree , ́even upon earth ...
... flesh , and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince ; it came from heaven , and to heaven it must return ; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity , which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys , in some degree , ́even upon earth ...
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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.