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... promote peace on earth , and good - will among men . It is calculated both to enlarge the understanding , and to elevate and purify the feel- ings , and thus to cultivate the moral being for the life which is to come . It spreads forth ...
... promote peace on earth , and good - will among men . It is calculated both to enlarge the understanding , and to elevate and purify the feel- ings , and thus to cultivate the moral being for the life which is to come . It spreads forth ...
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... promote his own interest at the ex- pense of others . There are , in fact , but a very few cases which can be provided for by any human institution ; it is a principle within that regulates the whole moral economy . In its extent and ...
... promote his own interest at the ex- pense of others . There are , in fact , but a very few cases which can be provided for by any human institution ; it is a principle within that regulates the whole moral economy . In its extent and ...
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... promote his reputation or his interest by not acting upon it ; he may experience a be- nevolent affection , but feel that the exercise would interfere too much with his personal interest or comfort . ( 2. ) The determination may arise ...
... promote his reputation or his interest by not acting upon it ; he may experience a be- nevolent affection , but feel that the exercise would interfere too much with his personal interest or comfort . ( 2. ) The determination may arise ...
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... promote his own interest . This is III . The desire of Power , or Ambition . the love of ruling , -of giving the law to a circle whe- ther more or less extensive . When it becomes the governing propensity , the strongest principles of ...
... promote his own interest . This is III . The desire of Power , or Ambition . the love of ruling , -of giving the law to a circle whe- ther more or less extensive . When it becomes the governing propensity , the strongest principles of ...
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... principle , - -as when a man seeks the approbation of others by deeds of benevolence , public spirit , or patriotism , -by actions calculated to promote the advantage or the comfort either of com munities SUPERIORITY - SOCIETY - ESTEEM .
... principle , - -as when a man seeks the approbation of others by deeds of benevolence , public spirit , or patriotism , -by actions calculated to promote the advantage or the comfort either of com munities SUPERIORITY - SOCIETY - ESTEEM .
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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...