Prospect: Or, View of the Moral World, Volume 1E. Palmer, 1803 |
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... use the passions of the human heart , and the gene- ral circumstances of mankind , as instruments to execute its pupose ; we may still be permited , though with becoming submission , ' to ask , not indeed what were the first , but what ...
... use the passions of the human heart , and the gene- ral circumstances of mankind , as instruments to execute its pupose ; we may still be permited , though with becoming submission , ' to ask , not indeed what were the first , but what ...
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... use we make of it . If ever man becomes an enlightened and virtuous be- ing , it will be by teaching him to repose in his faculties an unqualified confidence , and to believe he can accomplish every thing instead of nothing . MORAL ...
... use we make of it . If ever man becomes an enlightened and virtuous be- ing , it will be by teaching him to repose in his faculties an unqualified confidence , and to believe he can accomplish every thing instead of nothing . MORAL ...
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... use of necessity . GIBBON . FOR sale by the editor , ( price 1 dollar ) at No. 26 Chat- ham - street , the PRINCIPLES OF NATURE , or a Develope- ment of the Moral Causes of Happiness and Misery among the Human Species , second edition ...
... use of necessity . GIBBON . FOR sale by the editor , ( price 1 dollar ) at No. 26 Chat- ham - street , the PRINCIPLES OF NATURE , or a Develope- ment of the Moral Causes of Happiness and Misery among the Human Species , second edition ...
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... use of intellect or ex position of thought , at the very time humanity stands in most need of it . It may be the interest of priests and kings to maintain such a doctrine ; but the best interests of human life require the industrious ...
... use of intellect or ex position of thought , at the very time humanity stands in most need of it . It may be the interest of priests and kings to maintain such a doctrine ; but the best interests of human life require the industrious ...
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... use the word properly - when a woman enters a con- vent she is called a noviciate , that is , she is upon trial or pro- bation . When she takes the oath , she is called a religieuse , that is , she is tied or bound by that oath to the ...
... use the word properly - when a woman enters a con- vent she is called a noviciate , that is , she is upon trial or pro- bation . When she takes the oath , she is called a religieuse , that is , she is tied or bound by that oath to the ...
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Page 122 - I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Page 126 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 149 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Page 126 - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Page 105 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud : And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh ; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Page 149 - And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
Page 132 - THIS is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam; in the day when they were created.
Page 143 - And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
Page 97 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 105 - And God said,' This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.