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... perfect piece of machinery , we can discover no waste of strength or misappli- cation of power , but the force applied is always commensurate to the effect produced . Man , in his early years , is attentive only to his own wants , and ...
... perfect piece of machinery , we can discover no waste of strength or misappli- cation of power , but the force applied is always commensurate to the effect produced . Man , in his early years , is attentive only to his own wants , and ...
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... perfect happiness , which they had lost , should , at some remote period , be restored to their race ; and this covenant was formally renewed to the patriarch Abraham . The first notice which the Almighty gave of himself to the father ...
... perfect happiness , which they had lost , should , at some remote period , be restored to their race ; and this covenant was formally renewed to the patriarch Abraham . The first notice which the Almighty gave of himself to the father ...
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... perfect happiness and immortal glory ; and in this general promise all the descendants of Adam were equally concerned . And it is in this light we are to consider that Christianity is plainly the end and perfection of the patriarchal ...
... perfect happiness and immortal glory ; and in this general promise all the descendants of Adam were equally concerned . And it is in this light we are to consider that Christianity is plainly the end and perfection of the patriarchal ...
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... perfect virtue . " The ambiguities of language have proved a fruit- ful source of disputation in moral science , but in no particular department of that science more than in the theory now under consideration . For by the meaning which ...
... perfect virtue . " The ambiguities of language have proved a fruit- ful source of disputation in moral science , but in no particular department of that science more than in the theory now under consideration . For by the meaning which ...
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... perfect harmony with the con- stitution of nature , and the revealed will of God . When we take a comprehensive survey of the works of creation and providence , with a view of proving the existence of a divine ruler , and of de ...
... perfect harmony with the con- stitution of nature , and the revealed will of God . When we take a comprehensive survey of the works of creation and providence , with a view of proving the existence of a divine ruler , and of de ...
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Page 194 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 335 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 95 - And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 262 - It is universally acknowledged that there is a great uniformity among the actions of men, in all nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same, in its principles and operations. The same motives always produce the same actions: The same events follow from the same causes.
Page 58 - Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God ; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water : That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day...
Page 335 - And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass ; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
Page 28 - Auspicious HOPE ! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe ; Won by their sweets, in Nature's languid hour, The way-worn pilgrim seeks thy summer bower ; There, as the wild bee murmurs on the wing, What peaceful dreams thy handmaid spirits bring ! What viewless forms th' ^Eolian organ play, And sweep the furrow'd lines of anxious thought away.
Page 74 - SBNI7S bation or censure; that which renders morality an active principle, and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: It is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.
Page 337 - And behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
Page 334 - And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.