Discourses on Various SubjectsD. Felt & Company, 1835 - 299 sidor |
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... tion ; that there is something to be said on the other side ? Nay more ; do not all the varying representations of human nature imply their opposites ? Does not virtue - according to our idea of it , according to the universal idea of ...
... tion ; that there is something to be said on the other side ? Nay more ; do not all the varying representations of human nature imply their opposites ? Does not virtue - according to our idea of it , according to the universal idea of ...
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... tion . We might say that the most ordinary tastes and the most trifling pursuits of man carry , to the obser- vant eye , marks of the nobler mind . We might say that vain trifling , and that fleeting , dying pleasure , does not satisfy ...
... tion . We might say that the most ordinary tastes and the most trifling pursuits of man carry , to the obser- vant eye , marks of the nobler mind . We might say that vain trifling , and that fleeting , dying pleasure , does not satisfy ...
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... tion that immensity in other words is but the image of his own idea ; that there is no eternity to him , but that which exists in his own unbounded thought ; that there is no God to man , but what has been conceived of in his own ...
... tion that immensity in other words is but the image of his own idea ; that there is no eternity to him , but that which exists in his own unbounded thought ; that there is no God to man , but what has been conceived of in his own ...
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... tion , and acting in that artificial state of things which trade produces ; and he imagines that he has witnessed the free and unsophisticated workings of the human heart ; he supposes that the laws of trade , are also the laws of human ...
... tion , and acting in that artificial state of things which trade produces ; and he imagines that he has witnessed the free and unsophisticated workings of the human heart ; he supposes that the laws of trade , are also the laws of human ...
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... tion to make . And that is on the spirit and tone with which it is to be viewed and spoken of . I have wished , even in speaking of its faults , to awaken a feeling of reverence and regret for it , such as would arise within us , on ...
... tion to make . And that is on the spirit and tone with which it is to be viewed and spoken of . I have wished , even in speaking of its faults , to awaken a feeling of reverence and regret for it , such as would arise within us , on ...
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Sida 229 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Sida 292 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Sida 221 - But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Sida 174 - And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear...
Sida 240 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Sida 296 - But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Sida 283 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Sida 256 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they ? with the years beyond the flood.
Sida 63 - It is profitable for the life that now is, and for that which is to come.
Sida 9 - Thou hast ordained ; what is man, that Thou art mindful of him ? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him ? For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet...