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Page 63
... understanding , impairs the memo- ry , and makes thofe faults habitual which are pro- duced by frequent exceffes . I fhould now proceed to fhew the ill effects which this vice has on the bodies and fortunes of men ; but these I fhall ...
... understanding , impairs the memo- ry , and makes thofe faults habitual which are pro- duced by frequent exceffes . I fhould now proceed to fhew the ill effects which this vice has on the bodies and fortunes of men ; but these I fhall ...
Page 66
... understandings to give way fometimes to a serious thought . SIR , IN your paper of Friday , the 9th inftant , you had occafion to confider the ubiquity of the Godhead , and at the fame time to fhew , that as he is pre- fent to every ...
... understandings to give way fometimes to a serious thought . SIR , IN your paper of Friday , the 9th inftant , you had occafion to confider the ubiquity of the Godhead , and at the fame time to fhew , that as he is pre- fent to every ...
Page 69
... understanding , rectify its will , purify its paffions , and enliven all the powers of man . How happy therefore is an intellectual being , who , by prayer and meditation , by virtue and good works , opens this communication between God ...
... understanding , rectify its will , purify its paffions , and enliven all the powers of man . How happy therefore is an intellectual being , who , by prayer and meditation , by virtue and good works , opens this communication between God ...
Page 92
... understanding . I have heard of a gentleman in the north of England , who was a remarkable inftance of this foolish fingularity . He had laid it down as a rule within himself , to act in the most indifferent parts of life , according to ...
... understanding . I have heard of a gentleman in the north of England , who was a remarkable inftance of this foolish fingularity . He had laid it down as a rule within himself , to act in the most indifferent parts of life , according to ...
Page 140
... understanding ? Or could a fọ- ciety of fuch creatures , with no other bottom but felf - love on which to maintain a commerce , ever flourish ? Reafon , it is certain , would oblige every man to pursue the general happiness , as the ...
... understanding ? Or could a fọ- ciety of fuch creatures , with no other bottom but felf - love on which to maintain a commerce , ever flourish ? Reafon , it is certain , would oblige every man to pursue the general happiness , as the ...
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