The Student's Manual of Moral Philosophy1870 |
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... influence over the elements and their changes . The laws of human action are derived from the nature and will of God , and the character and condition of man , and may be understood and adopted by man , as a being endowed with ...
... influence over the elements and their changes . The laws of human action are derived from the nature and will of God , and the character and condition of man , and may be understood and adopted by man , as a being endowed with ...
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... influences which are brought to bear upon it . Some object of sense or of thought is contemplated . We are affected ... influence of these states and affections of mind , the will is moved to activity . The forms which these feelings of ...
... influences which are brought to bear upon it . Some object of sense or of thought is contemplated . We are affected ... influence of these states and affections of mind , the will is moved to activity . The forms which these feelings of ...
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... influence the will and issue in action . But while knowing and feeling and willing may , and often do , all unite in our mental manifestations , they may , by scientific abstraction , be considered separately . In this way , the ...
... influence the will and issue in action . But while knowing and feeling and willing may , and often do , all unite in our mental manifestations , they may , by scientific abstraction , be considered separately . In this way , the ...
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... influence the Will , the principles of human action may be arranged in two great Classes . As in a watch , or other piece INTROD . 13 CLASSIFICATION OF PRINCIPLES OF ACTION . OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF PRINCIPLES OF ACTION.
... influence the Will , the principles of human action may be arranged in two great Classes . As in a watch , or other piece INTROD . 13 CLASSIFICATION OF PRINCIPLES OF ACTION . OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF PRINCIPLES OF ACTION.
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... influence which they have upon the Will , is not so much in the way of impulse or incitement , as in the way of direction and government.7 7 Dr. Reid's classification of the prin- ciples of human action is as follows : - " There are ...
... influence which they have upon the Will , is not so much in the way of impulse or incitement , as in the way of direction and government.7 7 Dr. Reid's classification of the prin- ciples of human action is as follows : - " There are ...
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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.