A Series of Popular Essays: Illustrative of Principles Essentially Connected with the Improvement of the Understanding, the Imagination, and the Heart, Volumen2Manners and Miller; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 |
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... . Origin of idolatry . Pagan superstition . Sects of philosophy . Doctrines taught in the heathen schools favourable to the indulgence of the sel- fish principle , 38 $ 7 vi CHAPTER IX . Operation of the propensity to enlarge.
... . Origin of idolatry . Pagan superstition . Sects of philosophy . Doctrines taught in the heathen schools favourable to the indulgence of the sel- fish principle , 38 $ 7 vi CHAPTER IX . Operation of the propensity to enlarge.
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... propensity to enlarge the idea of self exhibited in the conduct of the Heathen philosophers : In the disobedience of the Jews : In the conduct of the Pharisees , & c . Tendency of divine revelation to counteract this propensity ...
... propensity to enlarge the idea of self exhibited in the conduct of the Heathen philosophers : In the disobedience of the Jews : In the conduct of the Pharisees , & c . Tendency of divine revelation to counteract this propensity ...
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... propensity to magnify the idea of self , that the memoirs of heroes have such power to fascinate , and to charm the imagination ? Let us now proceed to examine the ope- ration of the love of power , in the ... propensity to enlarge the idea.
... propensity to magnify the idea of self , that the memoirs of heroes have such power to fascinate , and to charm the imagination ? Let us now proceed to examine the ope- ration of the love of power , in the ... propensity to enlarge the idea.
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... propensity to enlarge the idea of self continues to ope- rate , the power obtained will never volun- tarily be relinquished . The manner of ex- ercising power may indeed assume a mild- er form ; and wherever the Christian reli- gion has ...
... propensity to enlarge the idea of self continues to ope- rate , the power obtained will never volun- tarily be relinquished . The manner of ex- ercising power may indeed assume a mild- er form ; and wherever the Christian reli- gion has ...
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... propensity to enlarge the idea of self , did not impel them to embrace a mode of life , which was the certain means of procuring for them the honour and renown of saint- ship . We may be the more inclined to sus- pect the purity of ...
... propensity to enlarge the idea of self , did not impel them to embrace a mode of life , which was the certain means of procuring for them the honour and renown of saint- ship . We may be the more inclined to sus- pect the purity of ...
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Página 241 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Página 88 - Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness remain in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be peace ; And the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Página 121 - But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth ? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee ; how much less this house which I have built...
Página 414 - If anyone love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him.
Página 300 - Perception of distress in others is a natural excitement, passively to pity, and actively to relieve it : but let a man set himself to attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which he must become acquainted ; when yet, at the same time, benevolence, considered not as a passion, but as a practical principle of action, will strengthen : and whilst he passively compassionates the distressed...
Página 410 - Lord to prepare his ways ; to give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, through the tender mercy of our God ; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Página 233 - In some tragedies and romances we meet with many beautiful and interesting scenes, founded upon what is called the force of blood, or upon the wonderful affection which near relations are supposed to conceive for one another, even before they know that they have any such connection. This force of blood, however, I am afraid, exists nowhere but in tragedies and romances.
Página 5 - A stranger to human nature, who saw the indifference of men about the misery of their inferiors and the regret and indignation which they feel for the misfortunes and sufferings of those above them, would be apt to imagine that pain must be more agonizing and the convulsions of death more terrible to persons of higher rank than to those of meaner stations.
Página 296 - Into the horrors of the gloomy jail? Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans; Where Sickness pines; where Thirst and Hunger burn, And poor Misfortune feels the lash of Vice.
Página 83 - America their condition is so peculiarly grievous, and their depression so complete, that servitude is a name too mild to describe their wretched state. A wife, among most. tribes, is no better than a beast of burden, destined to every office of labor and fatigue.