The Constitution of Man in Relation to the Natural LawsCassell, 1803 - 236 pages |
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... discover its capa- bilities of ministering to their advantage . Where these physical energies are too powerful to be controlled , Man has received intelligence by which he may observe their courses , and accommodate his conduct to their ...
... discover its capa- bilities of ministering to their advantage . Where these physical energies are too powerful to be controlled , Man has received intelligence by which he may observe their courses , and accommodate his conduct to their ...
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... discovering his own nature and its relations to external objects ; that He has left him to apply it in framing suitable institutions ensure his happiness ; that , nevertheless , Man has hitherto been ignorant of his nature and of its ...
... discovering his own nature and its relations to external objects ; that He has left him to apply it in framing suitable institutions ensure his happiness ; that , nevertheless , Man has hitherto been ignorant of his nature and of its ...
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... discover and carry into effect the con- ditions - physical , moral , and intellectual - which , in virtue of this constitution , require to be realised before the fullest enjoyment of which he is capable can be attained . According to ...
... discover and carry into effect the con- ditions - physical , moral , and intellectual - which , in virtue of this constitution , require to be realised before the fullest enjoyment of which he is capable can be attained . According to ...
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... discover how far the external world is arranged with wisdom and benevolence in regard to it . Bishop Butler , in the Preface to his Sermons , says : — " It is from considering the relations which the several appetites and passions in ...
... discover how far the external world is arranged with wisdom and benevolence in regard to it . Bishop Butler , in the Preface to his Sermons , says : — " It is from considering the relations which the several appetites and passions in ...
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... discover the real effect of the physical laws of nature on human happiness , we need to understand 1st , The physi- cal laws themselves , as revealed by the phenomena of natural substances : these laws , so far as discovered , are ...
... discover the real effect of the physical laws of nature on human happiness , we need to understand 1st , The physi- cal laws themselves , as revealed by the phenomena of natural substances : these laws , so far as discovered , are ...
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Page 15 - ... also rewards and punishes actions. If, for example, the pain which we feel, upon doing what tends to the destruction of our bodies, suppose upon too near approaches to fire, or upon wounding ourselves, be appointed by the Author of nature to prevent our doing what thus tends to our destruction, this is altogether as much an instance of his punishing our actions, and consequently of our being under his government, as declaring by a voice from heaven that if we acted so, he would inflict such pain...
Page 15 - Nature's acting upon us every moment which we feel it, or to his having at once contrived and executed his own part in the plan of the world, makes no alteration as to the matter before us.
Page 104 - They say nay in a word, but they do so in deed ; for to the one they will gladly give a stipend of two hundred crowns by the year, and loth to offer to the other two hundred shillings. God that sitteth in heaven laugheth their choice to scorn, and rewardeth their liberality as it should. For he suffereth...
Page 212 - Never, perhaps, was witnessed a finer scene than on the deck of my little ship, when all hope of life had left us. Noble as the character of the British sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible that amongst forty-one persons not one repining word should have been uttered.