The Constitution of Man in Relation to the Natural LawsCassell, 1803 - 236 pages |
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Page xi
... SUFFERING UNDER THE NATURAL LAWS . The spirit of laws agrees with the character of the lawgiver Benevolent and just spirit of the Divine laws Difficulties considered Object of suffering . Punishment of each other by the lower animals ...
... SUFFERING UNDER THE NATURAL LAWS . The spirit of laws agrees with the character of the lawgiver Benevolent and just spirit of the Divine laws Difficulties considered Object of suffering . Punishment of each other by the lower animals ...
Page xii
... embrace ? APPENDIX . 219 . 219 . 220 220 221 . 221 225 . 226 I. Death II . The treatment of Criminals III . Suffering under the Natural Laws 228 231 233 THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN . INTRODUCTION . HUMAN NATURE . xii CONTENTS .
... embrace ? APPENDIX . 219 . 219 . 220 220 221 . 221 225 . 226 I. Death II . The treatment of Criminals III . Suffering under the Natural Laws 228 231 233 THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN . INTRODUCTION . HUMAN NATURE . xii CONTENTS .
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... suffer pain and sickness , although he may be a paragon of every Christian virtue . These results are frequently observed ; and on such occasions the darkness and inscrutable perplexity of the ways of Pro- vidence are generally ...
... suffer pain and sickness , although he may be a paragon of every Christian virtue . These results are frequently observed ; and on such occasions the darkness and inscrutable perplexity of the ways of Pro- vidence are generally ...
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... suffer dissolution : all which processes characterise vegetable substances and animal beings . The organic laws are superior to the merely physical . A living animal may be placed in an oven along with the carcass of a dead animal , may ...
... suffer dissolution : all which processes characterise vegetable substances and animal beings . The organic laws are superior to the merely physical . A living animal may be placed in an oven along with the carcass of a dead animal , may ...
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... suffer by the ship's sinking . People who obey the moral law enjoy the intense internal delights that spring from active moral faculties ; they render themselves , moreover , objects of affection and esteem to moral and intelligent ...
... suffer by the ship's sinking . People who obey the moral law enjoy the intense internal delights that spring from active moral faculties ; they render themselves , moreover , objects of affection and esteem to moral and intelligent ...
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according action activity adapted animal faculties animal propensities appears arranged ascer benevolence bestowed body brain Cassell's causes cloth condition conduct consequences constitution creation Creator death desire discover disease Divine duty effects enjoy enjoyment evil exercise existence external objects feelings GEORGE COMBE gilt gratification happiness harmony higher sentiments ignorance Illustrated improvement individual inflict infringement instance institutions intellectual faculties intellectual laws intelligent intuitive knowledge JULIAN HAWTHORNE knowledge labour laws of nature live lower animals mankind marriage ment mind misery moral and intellectual moral law moral sentiments nations natural laws natural philosophy neglect obedience obey observation offender offspring operation organic laws organised pain parents perceive persons philosophy Phrenology physical laws pleasure possess practical present principle propen punishment qualities race regard relations religion render ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON selfish ship society suffering supremacy T. P. O'CONNOR tion transmitted vessels of wrath views vigour Vols W. W. GREENER
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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.