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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... truth , is as guilty as the pro- pagator of an injurious falsehood . Nature is made 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 ...
... truth , is as guilty as the pro- pagator of an injurious falsehood . Nature is made 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 ...
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... truth , and the knowledge of Na- ture ; and the end of wisdom is , to assimilate the human mind to the divine , which can only be done by the practice of beneficence and truth . This beneficence he extended to all animals , and the ...
... truth , and the knowledge of Na- ture ; and the end of wisdom is , to assimilate the human mind to the divine , which can only be done by the practice of beneficence and truth . This beneficence he extended to all animals , and the ...
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... truth : In infants , minds appear Infirm and tender as their bodies are : In man , the mind is strong ; when age prevails , And the quick vigor of each member fails , The mind's powers too decrease , and waste apace , And grave and ...
... truth : In infants , minds appear Infirm and tender as their bodies are : In man , the mind is strong ; when age prevails , And the quick vigor of each member fails , The mind's powers too decrease , and waste apace , And grave and ...
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... truth . Lastly ; when a man acts without thought or design , 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 ...
... truth . Lastly ; when a man acts without thought or design , 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 ...
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... truth , justice , temperance , or fortitude ; in short , any thing more excellent than a mind satisfied with itself , and sufficient to its own happiness ; and whilst it acts conformably to right reason , acquiesces in whatever ...
... truth , justice , temperance , or fortitude ; in short , any thing more excellent than a mind satisfied with itself , and sufficient to its own happiness ; and whilst it acts conformably to right reason , acquiesces in whatever ...
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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.