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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... religious faith : In producing bigotry and intolerance . Conclusion . ESSAY V. INQUIRY INTO THE MEANS APPOINTED BY ́PROVIDENCE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND CULTIVATION OF THE BENEVOLENT AFFEC- TIONS . CHAPTER I. Preliminary observations ...
... religious faith : In producing bigotry and intolerance . Conclusion . ESSAY V. INQUIRY INTO THE MEANS APPOINTED BY ́PROVIDENCE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND CULTIVATION OF THE BENEVOLENT AFFEC- TIONS . CHAPTER I. Preliminary observations ...
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... religion , for cultivating the bene- volent affections . Comparison of the principles derived from sympathy with the opinions of man- kind , and the principles derived from religion , CONCLUSION , h 419 447 Page 6 , 7 , 7 , 40 , 63 ix.
... religion , for cultivating the bene- volent affections . Comparison of the principles derived from sympathy with the opinions of man- kind , and the principles derived from religion , CONCLUSION , h 419 447 Page 6 , 7 , 7 , 40 , 63 ix.
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... religion of Christ has effected the subjugation of the selfish principle ; and perhaps there is no situation so unfavou- rable for the production of this blessed change of heart , as that of unlimited power . 12 ESSAY IV .
... religion of Christ has effected the subjugation of the selfish principle ; and perhaps there is no situation so unfavou- rable for the production of this blessed change of heart , as that of unlimited power . 12 ESSAY IV .
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... religious liberty : in those few , the propensity to enlarge the idea of self , im- pelled the bold to procure by valour an increase of the power they already posses- sed , and directed the wisdom of the wise to the same object ; but ...
... religious liberty : in those few , the propensity to enlarge the idea of self , im- pelled the bold to procure by valour an increase of the power they already posses- sed , and directed the wisdom of the wise to the same object ; but ...
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... religious or political , ascribed to his party , will be brought forward in triumph by his oppo- nents ; and while party - spirit predominates , be considered as convincing evidence , that his discoveries , whatever be the benefit ...
... religious or political , ascribed to his party , will be brought forward in triumph by his oppo- nents ; and while party - spirit predominates , be considered as convincing evidence , that his discoveries , whatever be the benefit ...
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Pasajes populares
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.