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2ndly according action admit Almighty animals appears argument arise Aristotle association of ideas axiom become believe benevolence capable carnivora Catiline cause character chief Christian Cicero circumstances civilised considered created creation Creator crime death Deity desire difficulty doctrine doubt duties earth endeavour Epicurus eternal evil existence expect fact faculties fear feelings FINSBURY CIRCUS give habits happiness Hence herbivorous human race ideas induced infer innate instinct intellect J. S. Mill judge Keilah knowledge less mankind matter ment mind mode moral law moral responsibility motives nature object observation opinion original ourselves pain parents peculiar Pentateuch perfect persons Phædo phrenologists Plato pleasure present principles probably proof propen propensities proposition pursuit question reason regard Satan savages scarcely seems Sennacherib sense Socrates soul spirit suffer suppose syllogism Tacitus things thought tion truth uncon vice vicious virtue virtuous words
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Page 110 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 159 - Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to Him that formed it, Why hast Thou made me thus ! Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour...
Page 61 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and Men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all, with uniform consent, admiring her as the Mother of their peace and joy.
Page 68 - ... nee erit alia lex Romae, alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac, sed et omnes gentes et omni tempore una lex et sempiterna et immutabilis continebit, unusque erit communis quasi magister et imperator omnium deus, ille legis huius inventor, disceptator, lator; cui qui non parebit, ipse se fugiet ac naturam hominis aspernatus hoc ipso luet maximas poenas, etiamsi cetera supplicia, quae putantur, effugerit...
Page 159 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words ; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, (which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know,) him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain...
Page 126 - ... hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 159 - What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction ; and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory...
Page 138 - Lapithis cratere minantem. 0 fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint, agricolas ! quibus ipsa procul discordibus armis fundit humo facilem victum iustissima tellus.
Page 83 - TENDER-HANDED stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. Tis the same with common natures, Use them kindly they rebel ; But be rough as nutmeg graters, And the rogues obey you well A.
Page 68 - Romae, alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac, sed et omnes gentes, et omni tempore una Lex, et sempiterna, et immortalis continebit; unusque erit communis quasi magister, et imperator omnium DEUS.