The Works of Hannah More, Volume 5Harper & Brothers, 1836 |
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Page 6
... evil , from the imagined good that thing might be conjectured to produce in a supposed state of unattainable improvement . Would it not be more safe and simple to determine our judgment as to the character of the thing in question , on ...
... evil , from the imagined good that thing might be conjectured to produce in a supposed state of unattainable improvement . Would it not be more safe and simple to determine our judgment as to the character of the thing in question , on ...
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... evil secretly works and insinuates itself , till the whole mass becomes impregnated by the pervading principle . Now , if the directing principle be unsound , the virtues growing out of it will be unsound also ; and no subordinate merit ...
... evil secretly works and insinuates itself , till the whole mass becomes impregnated by the pervading principle . Now , if the directing principle be unsound , the virtues growing out of it will be unsound also ; and no subordinate merit ...
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... evil . When it is recollected how many young men pick up their habits of thinking and their notions of morality from the playhouse , it is not , perhaps , going too far to suspect , that the principles and exam- ples exhibited on the ...
... evil . When it is recollected how many young men pick up their habits of thinking and their notions of morality from the playhouse , it is not , perhaps , going too far to suspect , that the principles and exam- ples exhibited on the ...
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... evil to be deprecated , even by the loss of his soul . If one of the most virtuous of poets and of men , by the cool , deliberate , argumentative manner in which he makes his Roman hero destroy himself ; this hero too a pagan ...
... evil to be deprecated , even by the loss of his soul . If one of the most virtuous of poets and of men , by the cool , deliberate , argumentative manner in which he makes his Roman hero destroy himself ; this hero too a pagan ...
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... evil on his mind , without having his heart so dissolved by amatory scenes , or his mind so warped by corrupt reasoning , or his heart so inflamed with seducing principles , as he will have experienced from other writers of the same ...
... evil on his mind , without having his heart so dissolved by amatory scenes , or his mind so warped by corrupt reasoning , or his heart so inflamed with seducing principles , as he will have experienced from other writers of the same ...
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