Letters on InfidelityClarendon Press, 1786 - 335 páginas |
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... strangers that were intro- duced to him , against doing it , be- cause he never failed , when by any accident it was done , to fly out into * Preface to LIFE , & c . C a transport of paffion and swearing ? * Was it DR . ADAM SMITH . 19.
... strangers that were intro- duced to him , against doing it , be- cause he never failed , when by any accident it was done , to fly out into * Preface to LIFE , & c . C a transport of paffion and swearing ? * Was it DR . ADAM SMITH . 19.
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George Horne. a transport of paffion and swearing ? * Was it deemed necessary , or expedi- ent , on this account , that he should reprefent himself , and that you should represent him , to have been perfectly secure of the growth and ...
George Horne. a transport of paffion and swearing ? * Was it deemed necessary , or expedi- ent , on this account , that he should reprefent himself , and that you should represent him , to have been perfectly secure of the growth and ...
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... means " " vern his paffions so philofophically " as his A. wishes to have it believed . But it is not my defire to depreciate * P. 13 . go- any any thing that might be really com- mendable in him 28 LETTERS ON INFIDELITY .
... means " " vern his paffions so philofophically " as his A. wishes to have it believed . But it is not my defire to depreciate * P. 13 . go- any any thing that might be really com- mendable in him 28 LETTERS ON INFIDELITY .
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... paffion , yet that ruling passion com- " monly leads to the tract of abste- " mious manners . That defire of dif- " tinction and fuperiority , so natural " to man , breaks out into a thousand " various and fantastic shapes ; and in ...
... paffion , yet that ruling passion com- " monly leads to the tract of abste- " mious manners . That defire of dif- " tinction and fuperiority , so natural " to man , breaks out into a thousand " various and fantastic shapes ; and in ...
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... paffion and prejudice enter into his conclufion . But wisdom , which con- fifts in fixing upon proper ends , and fitly proportioning means to those ends , is wisdom , in whatsoever ob- ject , mode , or degree it may exist ; and there is ...
... paffion and prejudice enter into his conclufion . But wisdom , which con- fifts in fixing upon proper ends , and fitly proportioning means to those ends , is wisdom , in whatsoever ob- ject , mode , or degree it may exist ; and there is ...
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Página 24 - I have lived to see this world is made up of perturbations ; and I have been long preparing to leave it, and gathering comfort for the dreadful hour of making my account with God, which I now apprehend to be near...
Página 231 - And the Lord was with Judah ; and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain ; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
Página 287 - And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet 14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever.
Página 22 - My duty towards God, is to believe in Him, to fear Him, and to love Him with all my heart, with all my mind, with all my soul, and with all my strength ; to worship Him, to give Him thanks, to put my whole trust in Him, to call upon Him, to honour His...
Página 115 - A man who retires from life does no harm to society: He only ceases to do good; which, if it is an injury, is of the lowest kind.
Página 64 - ... why select so minute, so weak, so bounded a principle as the reason and design of animals is found to be upon this planet? What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe?
Página 5 - I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when after three or four hours...
Página 25 - God hath heard my daily petitions, for I am at peace with all men, and he is at peace with me; and from. that blessed assurance I feel that inward joy, which this world can neither give nor take from me: my conscience beareth me this witness, and this witness makes the thoughts of death joyful.
Página 245 - And after his death he prophesied, and shewed the king his end, and lifted up his voice from the earth in prophecy, to blot out the wickedness of the people.