On Man: His Motives, Their Rise, Operations, Opposition, and Results, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833 |
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Page i
... - tives , passions , desires , and aversions , are so inti- mately interwoven in our frame , as to form a com- ponent part of it , and as we could form no notion ON MAN ; HIS MOTIVES , THEIR RISE , OPERATIONS A 4 vii CHAPTER.
... - tives , passions , desires , and aversions , are so inti- mately interwoven in our frame , as to form a com- ponent part of it , and as we could form no notion ON MAN ; HIS MOTIVES , THEIR RISE , OPERATIONS A 4 vii CHAPTER.
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... desire of becoming better acquainted with the object of our pursuit Whether desire can precede attention in all cases , and how it may be excited Desire and attention reciprocally strengthen each other The memory of any thing is ...
... desire of becoming better acquainted with the object of our pursuit Whether desire can precede attention in all cases , and how it may be excited Desire and attention reciprocally strengthen each other The memory of any thing is ...
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... desires which act as subsidiary mo- tives ought to be regarded , and how classed The desire of knowledge admits of abuse , and is not , strictly speaking , a pure rational motive Whether the study of literature and science tend to ameli ...
... desires which act as subsidiary mo- tives ought to be regarded , and how classed The desire of knowledge admits of abuse , and is not , strictly speaking , a pure rational motive Whether the study of literature and science tend to ameli ...
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... desire of action as it has a reference to mind and body - Page - 153 - 155 On our desire of being beloved by friends , relatives , and connections CHAP . IX . - · 158 A recurrence to the consideration of choice , and the mode by which ...
... desire of action as it has a reference to mind and body - Page - 153 - 155 On our desire of being beloved by friends , relatives , and connections CHAP . IX . - · 158 A recurrence to the consideration of choice , and the mode by which ...
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... desire of happiness , pursue a course of conduct destructive of it 209 CHAP . XI . We are , by the medium of choice , and consequently by the motives which elicited it , formed and constituted for a state of trial Man is placed in the ...
... desire of happiness , pursue a course of conduct destructive of it 209 CHAP . XI . We are , by the medium of choice , and consequently by the motives which elicited it , formed and constituted for a state of trial Man is placed in the ...
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Page 312 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 353 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Page 352 - For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded by some man ; but he that built all things is God.
Page 320 - For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Page 333 - The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people ; for ye were the fewest of all people : but because the Lord loved you...
Page iii - Either make the tree good and his fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by his fruit. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Page 352 - Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Page 312 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 360 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 353 - For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did ; by the which we draw nigh unto God.