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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... greater damnation . Wo unto you , scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte ; and when he is made , ye make him two - fold more the child of hell than yourselves . Wo unto you , scribes and ...
... greater damnation . Wo unto you , scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte ; and when he is made , ye make him two - fold more the child of hell than yourselves . Wo unto you , scribes and ...
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... greater damnation . Wo unto you , scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte ; and when he is made , ye make him two - fold more the child of hell than yourselves . Wo unto you , scribes and ...
... greater damnation . Wo unto you , scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte ; and when he is made , ye make him two - fold more the child of hell than yourselves . Wo unto you , scribes and ...
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... greater must enjoy , and quicker sense : But since none such appears , ' tis plain it flies By piece - meal through the air , and therefore dies . But grant , what's false the soul can backward fly , And huddled up within one member lie ...
... greater must enjoy , and quicker sense : But since none such appears , ' tis plain it flies By piece - meal through the air , and therefore dies . But grant , what's false the soul can backward fly , And huddled up within one member lie ...
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... greater and better than others , as of really being so . For he that is so mean as to depend upon the giddy and ignorant multitude , ought never to be accounted of a truly great and exalted spirit , and there is nothing that so easily ...
... greater and better than others , as of really being so . For he that is so mean as to depend upon the giddy and ignorant multitude , ought never to be accounted of a truly great and exalted spirit , and there is nothing that so easily ...
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... greater sign of a narrow , mean , and sordid spirit , than to dote upon riches ; nor is any thing on the contrary more creditable and magnificent than to contemn wealth , if you have it not ; and if you have it , to lay it out freely in ...
... greater sign of a narrow , mean , and sordid spirit , than to dote upon riches ; nor is any thing on the contrary more creditable and magnificent than to contemn wealth , if you have it not ; and if you have it , to lay it out freely in ...
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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.