The Constitution of Man in Relation to the Natural LawsCassell, 1803 - 236 pages |
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... persons will divert themselves upon finding lesser pains considered as instances of Divine punishment . There is no possibility of answering or evading the general thing here intended , without denying all final causes ...
... persons will divert themselves upon finding lesser pains considered as instances of Divine punishment . There is no possibility of answering or evading the general thing here intended , without denying all final causes ...
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... persons will divert themselves upon finding lesser pains considered as instances of Divine punishment . There is no possibility of answering or evading the general thing here intended , without denying all final causes . For , final ...
... persons will divert themselves upon finding lesser pains considered as instances of Divine punishment . There is no possibility of answering or evading the general thing here intended , without denying all final causes . For , final ...
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... person who neglects these may pine in disease and be racked with torturing pains , although at the very moment he may be devoting his mind to the highest duties of humanity . The power of Man to modify the influence of one natural law ...
... person who neglects these may pine in disease and be racked with torturing pains , although at the very moment he may be devoting his mind to the highest duties of humanity . The power of Man to modify the influence of one natural law ...
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... persons are of opinion that Christianity alone suf- fices for our guidance in all practical virtues , without ... person in the chair was a patient , and 76 [ CHAP . I. 22 THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN . Creation constituted in harmony with ...
... persons are of opinion that Christianity alone suf- fices for our guidance in all practical virtues , without ... person in the chair was a patient , and 76 [ CHAP . I. 22 THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN . Creation constituted in harmony with ...
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George Combe. the person in the chair was a patient , and the operator a dentist , and that the object was to deliver the patient from violent torture , we should then perceive that an operation attended with pain had been used as a ...
George Combe. the person in the chair was a patient , and the operator a dentist , and that the object was to deliver the patient from violent torture , we should then perceive that an operation attended with pain had been used as a ...
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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.