On Man: His Motives, Their Rise, Operations, Opposition, and Results, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833 |
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... improvement , and how impossible it would be to render him , under different circumstances , and without choice , pro- bationary , and under the government of an all - wise and gracious Being . Should any one be disposed to object to ...
... improvement , and how impossible it would be to render him , under different circumstances , and without choice , pro- bationary , and under the government of an all - wise and gracious Being . Should any one be disposed to object to ...
Page xix
... improvement Our perceptive powers may be employed in gaining a clearer knowledge of what is visible and tangible in the productions both of art and nature Complex modes , and abstract qualities , are better known by the attentive ...
... improvement Our perceptive powers may be employed in gaining a clearer knowledge of what is visible and tangible in the productions both of art and nature Complex modes , and abstract qualities , are better known by the attentive ...
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... improvement of our reason , and to con- stitute our superiority over the brute creation , as much as the tongue or ear . And yet this will pro- bably appear to be actually the case , if we call to mind that it is by their assistance and ...
... improvement of our reason , and to con- stitute our superiority over the brute creation , as much as the tongue or ear . And yet this will pro- bably appear to be actually the case , if we call to mind that it is by their assistance and ...
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... improved . He must be docile and tractable , and disposed to learn and gain knowledge and a facility of action by successive advances . He acts volun- tarily and intentionally , not under instinctive im- pulses ; and whatever he does ...
... improved . He must be docile and tractable , and disposed to learn and gain knowledge and a facility of action by successive advances . He acts volun- tarily and intentionally , not under instinctive im- pulses ; and whatever he does ...
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... improved ; that to this component part of our frame may be ascribed our susceptibility of moral appro- bation , our admiration of what is pure and disin- terested , our religious feelings , of our sense of duty , of our knowledge of God ...
... improved ; that to this component part of our frame may be ascribed our susceptibility of moral appro- bation , our admiration of what is pure and disin- terested , our religious feelings , of our sense of duty , of our knowledge of God ...
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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.