Village Conversations, Or The Vicar's Fireside, Volumen3Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1817 |
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... friends of human happiness bestow on every attempt , however humble , to accelerate the progress of intellect , and advance the glorious cause of Truth and Virtue . SUBSCRIBERS . REV . J. Arthur Captain Atkins Mr. Abbott viii PREFACE .
... friends of human happiness bestow on every attempt , however humble , to accelerate the progress of intellect , and advance the glorious cause of Truth and Virtue . SUBSCRIBERS . REV . J. Arthur Captain Atkins Mr. Abbott viii PREFACE .
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... Truth and when man shall no longer doubt the existence of a principle which he must feel in himself , unless indeed its infallible admonitions have been disregarded , and its sacred impulses stifled by his vices and his crimes ...
... Truth and when man shall no longer doubt the existence of a principle which he must feel in himself , unless indeed its infallible admonitions have been disregarded , and its sacred impulses stifled by his vices and his crimes ...
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... truth , ' and its union with the benevolent principle . The moral sense , said Sir Edward , being an acquired , and not an instinctive perception , is no proof that it is not universal , since it is connected with mind ; and wherever ...
... truth , ' and its union with the benevolent principle . The moral sense , said Sir Edward , being an acquired , and not an instinctive perception , is no proof that it is not universal , since it is connected with mind ; and wherever ...
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... truth can be more evident than this ; for as mo- rality is the guide of human life , the principle of order , the universal source of real improve- ment and genuine happiness to all mankind , every thing relative to the direction of ...
... truth can be more evident than this ; for as mo- rality is the guide of human life , the principle of order , the universal source of real improve- ment and genuine happiness to all mankind , every thing relative to the direction of ...
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... truth . Liberty extends her wings , shakes the chains of despotism , and imparts her blessings to distant regions . Ignorance must be diminished proportionably to the diffusion of the beams of Christianity . Therefore the necessity of ...
... truth . Liberty extends her wings , shakes the chains of despotism , and imparts her blessings to distant regions . Ignorance must be diminished proportionably to the diffusion of the beams of Christianity . Therefore the necessity of ...
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Página 175 - LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
Página 7 - FOR the principal aim of society is to protect individuals in the enjoyment of those absolute rights, which were vested in them by the immutable laws of nature ; but which could not be preserved in peace without that mutual assistance and intercourse which is gained by the institution of friendly and social communities. Hence it follows, that the first and primary end of human laws is to maintain and regulate these absolute rights of individuals.
Página 57 - Every sort of moral, every sort of civil, every sort of politic institution, aiding the rational and natural ties that connect the human understanding and affections to the divine, are not more than necessary, in order to build up that wonderful structure, Man...
Página 180 - In measure such, that, from the wide complex Of coexistent orders, one might rise, One Order, all-involving and entire, He too beholding in the sacred light Of his essential reason, all the shapes Of swift contingence, all successive ties Of action propagated through the sum Of possible existence, he at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So...
Página 44 - Though he should consider some of them as in some measure abusive, he will content himself with moderating, what he often cannot annihilate without great violence. When he cannot conquer the rooted prejudices of the people by reason and persuasion, he will not attempt to subdue them by force...
Página 177 - He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active. Thus the men Whom Nature's works can charm, with God himself Hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, With his conceptions, act upon his plan; And form to his, the relish of their souls.
Página 193 - Let there be light' proclaimed the Almighty Lord, Astonished chaos heard the potent word; Through all his realms the kindling ether runs, And the mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first; Bend, as they journey with projectile force, In bright ellipses their reluctant course; HAYLEY.
Página 156 - His ears are open to the softest cry, His grace descends to meet the lifted eye ; He reads the language of a silent tear, And sighs are incense from a heart sincere.
Página i - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 20 Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men.