Thoughts on the Cause of Evil, Physical and Moral: In a Series of LettersJames Carpenter, 1810 - 174 pages |
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... virtue on the rack , or suffocating in the Black Hole of Calcutta , is happier than vice in any pos- sible situation ; that Cato , chained to the triumphal car of Cæsar , and .... baited with the rabble's curse , " would be happier than ...
... virtue on the rack , or suffocating in the Black Hole of Calcutta , is happier than vice in any pos- sible situation ; that Cato , chained to the triumphal car of Cæsar , and .... baited with the rabble's curse , " would be happier than ...
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... virtue in this world is as happy as it deserves to be , or even as it possibly could be , the question would be as much unanswered as it is at present . Why are millions placed from their birth in circum- stances in which it is morally ...
... virtue in this world is as happy as it deserves to be , or even as it possibly could be , the question would be as much unanswered as it is at present . Why are millions placed from their birth in circum- stances in which it is morally ...
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... virtue , and thereby ascertain their worthiness of eternal happiness : and a no- tion more unworthy than this of the Divine nature never was entertained by the human mind . It goes to assert , that God , being ignorant of the true ...
... virtue , and thereby ascertain their worthiness of eternal happiness : and a no- tion more unworthy than this of the Divine nature never was entertained by the human mind . It goes to assert , that God , being ignorant of the true ...
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... virtue . To this I an- swer , that , without it , there would certain- ly be innocence . Besides , it is by no means ... virtue ) , Why is such a degree of it permitted , as is productive , not of virtue , but of vice and wretchedness ...
... virtue . To this I an- swer , that , without it , there would certain- ly be innocence . Besides , it is by no means ... virtue ) , Why is such a degree of it permitted , as is productive , not of virtue , but of vice and wretchedness ...
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... virtue , and a few Jews and Christians , may have enjoyed and may now enjoy that very ex- alted pleasure ; but the great mass of man- kind , who are either engrossed by care to sustain life , or are sunk in debasing idola- try and ...
... virtue , and a few Jews and Christians , may have enjoyed and may now enjoy that very ex- alted pleasure ; but the great mass of man- kind , who are either engrossed by care to sustain life , or are sunk in debasing idola- try and ...
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Page 26 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 87 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 167 - Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Page 167 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat, all the days of thy life: and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page 146 - And Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians; and the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord, and his servant Moses.
Page 145 - But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
Page 144 - And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
Page 137 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Page 25 - The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to dcath for his own sin.
Page 55 - Whatever it be that forms the manners of one generation, the next must imbibe a deeper tincture of the same dye; men being more susceptible of all impressions during infancy, and retaining these impressions as long as they remain in the world.