The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed, Volume 1W. Pickering, 1837 - English literature |
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... constitution of the moral habits . For all crimi- nality supposes its essentials to have been within the power of the agent . Either therefore the facts adduced do of themselves convey the whole proof of the ESSAY IV . 29.
... constitution of the moral habits . For all crimi- nality supposes its essentials to have been within the power of the agent . Either therefore the facts adduced do of themselves convey the whole proof of the ESSAY IV . 29.
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... the event wholly to the full and adequate promulgation of the truth , and to those generous affections which the constitution of our moral nature has linked to the full perception of it . Yet evil may , nay ESSAY VIII . 75.
... the event wholly to the full and adequate promulgation of the truth , and to those generous affections which the constitution of our moral nature has linked to the full perception of it . Yet evil may , nay ESSAY VIII . 75.
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... constitution ; but it would be absurd to blame the law by which his life is declared forfeit . It were to expect , that by an involved contradiction the law should allow itself not to be law , by allow- ing the state , of which it is a ...
... constitution ; but it would be absurd to blame the law by which his life is declared forfeit . It were to expect , that by an involved contradiction the law should allow itself not to be law , by allow- ing the state , of which it is a ...
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... constitution is that , which supposing the ruler to have a diffe- . rent interest from that of his country , and even from himself as a reasonable and moral creature , grounds itself on the incompatibility of knowledge with folly ...
... constitution is that , which supposing the ruler to have a diffe- . rent interest from that of his country , and even from himself as a reasonable and moral creature , grounds itself on the incompatibility of knowledge with folly ...
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... constitution , since the Revo- lution , the state of our literature , and the wide dif- fusion , if not of ... constitutional powers already ex- isting — if they are removable at pleasure , that which is heretical and seditious in 1809 ...
... constitution , since the Revo- lution , the state of our literature , and the wide dif- fusion , if not of ... constitutional powers already ex- isting — if they are removable at pleasure , that which is heretical and seditious in 1809 ...
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Page 260 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Page 98 - Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world, grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 83 - Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and power, and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing...
Page 6 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies : where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.
Page 49 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 98 - That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Page 45 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 98 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tracts, and hearing all manner of reason...
Page 128 - He hath showed thee, 0 man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy GOD...
Page 84 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.