The Student's Manual of Moral Philosophy1870 |
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... Divine Energy acting in the creatures . " " When I see an insect working at the construction of a nest or cocoon , " said Bonnet , " I am impressed with respect ; because it seems to me that I am at a spectacle , where the Supreme ...
... Divine Energy acting in the creatures . " " When I see an insect working at the construction of a nest or cocoon , " said Bonnet , " I am impressed with respect ; because it seems to me that I am at a spectacle , where the Supreme ...
Page 93
... common language , and of common behaviour , over the world , is formed upon supposition of a Moral Faculty ; whether called Con- science , Moral Reason , Moral Sense , or Divine BOOK II . OF CONSCIENCE , OR THE MORAL FACULTY . 93.
... common language , and of common behaviour , over the world , is formed upon supposition of a Moral Faculty ; whether called Con- science , Moral Reason , Moral Sense , or Divine BOOK II . OF CONSCIENCE , OR THE MORAL FACULTY . 93.
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William Fleming. science , Moral Reason , Moral Sense , or Divine Reason ; whether considered as a perception of the understanding , or as a sentiment of the heart , or , which seems the truth , as including both . ” In other passages ...
William Fleming. science , Moral Reason , Moral Sense , or Divine Reason ; whether considered as a perception of the understanding , or as a sentiment of the heart , or , which seems the truth , as including both . ” In other passages ...
Page 113
... Divine will is the manifestation of the Divine nature ; and if recti- tude belong to the Divine nature it must be manifested in the Divine will , which is the expression of that nature . " The being of God , " said Hooker ( Eccles . Pol ...
... Divine will is the manifestation of the Divine nature ; and if recti- tude belong to the Divine nature it must be manifested in the Divine will , which is the expression of that nature . " The being of God , " said Hooker ( Eccles . Pol ...
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... Divine mind must do the same ; for the relations were constituted by God when he called things into being ; and conformity to them must be in accordance with his will . So that Conscience , when truly enlightened , is a ray from the Divine ...
... Divine mind must do the same ; for the relations were constituted by God when he called things into being ; and conformity to them must be in accordance with his will . So that Conscience , when truly enlightened , is a ray from the Divine ...
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Popular passages
Page 320 - 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 360 - 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 132 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 220 - Calvinism presents, it cannot be denied that " such knowledge is too wonderful for us; it is high, we cannot attain unto it.
Page 173 - 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 110 - 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 381 - 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 223 - 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 386 - ... according to the deeds done in the body, whether they have been good or evil.
Page 32 - But strew his ashes to the wind Whose sword or voice has served mankind, And is he dead, whose glorious mind Lifts thine on high ? To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.