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... common speech , we distinguish between thought , word , and deed . But to think is an act , and to speak is an act , as well as to do anything that may be in our power . The word Action is to be understood negatively as well as posi ...
... common speech , we distinguish between thought , word , and deed . But to think is an act , and to speak is an act , as well as to do anything that may be in our power . The word Action is to be understood negatively as well as posi ...
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... common to all these states or affections of mind - whether they be denominated sensations or sentiments , emotions or desires , likings or dislikings , appetencies or aversions , approbation or disapprobation - is , that they all ...
... common to all these states or affections of mind - whether they be denominated sensations or sentiments , emotions or desires , likings or dislikings , appetencies or aversions , approbation or disapprobation - is , that they all ...
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... common origin of them all is to be found in our capacity of feeling pleasure or pain - of being affected by good or evil . But these feelings , before they prompt to action , assume the form of Appetence or Aversion - that is ...
... common origin of them all is to be found in our capacity of feeling pleasure or pain - of being affected by good or evil . But these feelings , before they prompt to action , assume the form of Appetence or Aversion - that is ...
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... common circumstances of the human condition , there will still remain to be noticed under the Order of Secondary and Factitious Springs of action , the power of Habit and the influence of Associa- tion , in altering and modifying all ...
... common circumstances of the human condition , there will still remain to be noticed under the Order of Secondary and Factitious Springs of action , the power of Habit and the influence of Associa- tion , in altering and modifying all ...
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... common to all forms and degrees of Desire is ten- dency towards some object or some act , which is to relieve some want , or to supply some defect , or to remove some uneasiness . And , in so far as the want , or defect , or uneasiness ...
... common to all forms and degrees of Desire is ten- dency towards some object or some act , which is to relieve some want , or to supply some defect , or to remove some uneasiness . And , in so far as the want , or defect , or uneasiness ...
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Page 322 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Page 134 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 222 - Calvinism presents, it cannot be denied that " such knowledge is too wonderful for us; it is high, we cannot attain unto it.
Page 175 - By motive, I mean the whole of that which moves, excites or invites the mind to volition, whether that be one thing singly, or many things conjunctly.
Page 112 - But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth 'good'; and the object of his hate and aversion, 'evil'; and of his contempt 'vile' and 'inconsiderable.' For these words of good, evil, and contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them, there being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common rule of good and evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves...
Page 383 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass: in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Page 109 - ... determinately some actions to be in themselves just, right, good; others to be in themselves evil, wrong, unjust, which, without being consulted, without being advised with, magisterially exerts itself, and approves or condemns him the doer of them accordingly; and which, if not forcibly stopped, naturally and always of course goes on to anticipate a higher and more effectual sentence which shall hereafter second and affirm its own.
Page 362 - Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book and sit him down and die.
Page 225 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Page 76 - For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams: and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions \ 7 and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains.