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... ; they can be strengthened in no other way ; and they are exercised right- ly only by doing just the work which God intended they should do . The moral powers , as a whole , can be so exer- cised as to improve them only as duty is accepted.
... ; they can be strengthened in no other way ; and they are exercised right- ly only by doing just the work which God intended they should do . The moral powers , as a whole , can be so exer- cised as to improve them only as duty is accepted.
Pagina 43
... intended he should be , to choose and do what He intended he should choose and do , and to enjoy what He intended he should enjoy . He who should fail in any of these would fail of attaining his whole end ; and if the word should at any ...
... intended he should be , to choose and do what He intended he should choose and do , and to enjoy what He intended he should enjoy . He who should fail in any of these would fail of attaining his whole end ; and if the word should at any ...
Pagina 44
... intended for its attainment , he would do all that he ought to do , would have the approbation of God , the approbation of his own conscience , and the sanction of reason . But if , in thus attaining the end for which he was made , man ...
... intended for its attainment , he would do all that he ought to do , would have the approbation of God , the approbation of his own conscience , and the sanction of reason . But if , in thus attaining the end for which he was made , man ...
Pagina 48
... intended by God , which can be but one , and in giving to each of those thus made secondary its proper place . The choice of this supreme end is the highest act of a rational being , and involves the activity of all his rational and ...
... intended by God , which can be but one , and in giving to each of those thus made secondary its proper place . The choice of this supreme end is the highest act of a rational being , and involves the activity of all his rational and ...
Pagina 53
... intended by him , and is an image of his own rational and holy blessedness in the activity of those powers in which we are made in his image . Of the conditions of good the above statement is the most general that can be made , and ...
... intended by him , and is an image of his own rational and holy blessedness in the activity of those powers in which we are made in his image . Of the conditions of good the above statement is the most general that can be made , and ...
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Pagina 121 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king...
Pagina 121 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antick sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Pagina 291 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Pagina 121 - The needy traveller, serene and gay, Walks the wild heath, and sings his toil away : Does envy seize thee ? crush th...
Pagina 121 - And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Pagina 66 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Pagina 294 - Oh ! let her read, nor loudly, nor elate, The doom that bars us from a better fate ; But, sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in ! And well may Doubt, the mother of Dismay, Pause at her martyr's tomb, and read the lay.
Pagina 98 - It is for this reason that the blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the church...