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... highest powers . - On these grounds , we consider Dr. ABERCROMBIE'S Volume equally useful to the young men of all professions , and as a work which may be perused with advantage even by those who have discovered the last and the most ...
... highest powers . - On these grounds , we consider Dr. ABERCROMBIE'S Volume equally useful to the young men of all professions , and as a work which may be perused with advantage even by those who have discovered the last and the most ...
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... to that which is the highest state of man , — his purity as a moral being . They ought all to lend their aid towards the cultivation of those principles of his nature which bind him to his fellow - 16 PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS .
... to that which is the highest state of man , — his purity as a moral being . They ought all to lend their aid towards the cultivation of those principles of his nature which bind him to his fellow - 16 PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS .
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... highest moment are overlooked , and deeds of our own , long gone by , escape from our remembrance . We thus lose a correct sense of our moral condition , and yield to the agency of present and external things , in a manner dispropor ...
... highest moment are overlooked , and deeds of our own , long gone by , escape from our remembrance . We thus lose a correct sense of our moral condition , and yield to the agency of present and external things , in a manner dispropor ...
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... but this is to exist for ever . That sci- ence , therefore , must be considered as the highest of all human pursuits which contemplates man in his relation to eternal things . With its importance , PHILOSOPHY OF THE MORAL FEELINGS . 19.
... but this is to exist for ever . That sci- ence , therefore , must be considered as the highest of all human pursuits which contemplates man in his relation to eternal things . With its importance , PHILOSOPHY OF THE MORAL FEELINGS . 19.
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... highest powers of reasoning , in showing the accordance of these truths with the soundest inductions of true philosophy . But , notwithstanding all their truth and all their utility , it may be doubted whether they are to any one the ...
... highest powers of reasoning , in showing the accordance of these truths with the soundest inductions of true philosophy . But , notwithstanding all their truth and all their utility , it may be doubted whether they are to any one the ...
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Page 96 - Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away....
Page 130 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another ;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.
Page 176 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Page 3 - THE LIFE OF MOHAMMED, Founder of the Religion of Islam, and of the Empire of the Saracens.
Page 174 - ... a peace which passeth all understanding;" " a wisdom pure and peaceable, gentle and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and of good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 118 - B., without degrading me. I think you know Moore. Pray assure him that I have not the smallest influence over Lord Byron, in this particular, and if I had, I certainly should employ it to eradicate from his great mind the delusions of Christianity, which, in spite of his reason, seem perpetually to recur, and to lay in ambush for the hours of sickness and distress.
Page 4 - No person's education can be considered complete without a certain degree of attention to the most recent improvements and discoveries in every branch of science. In none have greater advances been made, in the present century, than in geography and the knowledge of the earth which we inhabit...