Discourses on Various SubjectsD. Felt & Company, 1835 - 299 páginas |
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... feeling of wonder , or of sadness . We might say much to rebut the charge of the phi- losopher ; so injurious to the soul , so fatal to all just self - respect , so fatal to all elevated virtue and devo- tion . We might say that the ...
... feeling of wonder , or of sadness . We might say much to rebut the charge of the phi- losopher ; so injurious to the soul , so fatal to all just self - respect , so fatal to all elevated virtue and devo- tion . We might say that the ...
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... feelings on which it is founded , are malignant . They may be selfish , they may be bad ; but they are not malicious ... feeling , in a very bad mind , is altogether selfish , yet it is very different from a malignant pain , at another's ...
... feelings on which it is founded , are malignant . They may be selfish , they may be bad ; but they are not malicious ... feeling , in a very bad mind , is altogether selfish , yet it is very different from a malignant pain , at another's ...
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... feeling of regret , that they belong to another . This is envy ; and it is sufficiently base ; but it is not purely malicious , and it is , in fact , the perversion of a feeling , originally capable of good and valuable uses . But I ...
... feeling of regret , that they belong to another . This is envy ; and it is sufficiently base ; but it is not purely malicious , and it is , in fact , the perversion of a feeling , originally capable of good and valuable uses . But I ...
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... feelings . He has no other interpreter . The honest man , therefore , will often presume honesty in another ; and the generous man , generosity . And so the selfish man can see nothing around him but selfish- DISCOURSE I. 19.
... feelings . He has no other interpreter . The honest man , therefore , will often presume honesty in another ; and the generous man , generosity . And so the selfish man can see nothing around him but selfish- DISCOURSE I. 19.
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... feels their emptiness ; that his higher nature most feels that it is solitary and unsatisfied . It is in the giddy whirl of frivolous pursuits and amusements , that his soul oftentimes is sick and weary with trifles and vanities : that ...
... feels their emptiness ; that his higher nature most feels that it is solitary and unsatisfied . It is in the giddy whirl of frivolous pursuits and amusements , that his soul oftentimes is sick and weary with trifles and vanities : that ...
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admiration affections amidst answer art thou awaken awful beauty believe blessed breath brethren cern character children of men Christian cold conscience creature dark death DISCOURSE divine divine grace doubt duty dwell earth earthly eternity evil faith fear feeling forms friends future gion glorious glory God's Gospel habit happiness heaven holy holy record honour hope human heart human nature immortal indifference indulgence infinite interest irreligion language light live look meditation ment mercy mind misery moral moral universe ness never noble objects pass passions perhaps piety pity pleasure prayer principle racter rational reason religion religious sensibility repeat retribution scene selfish sense sensual sinful sinner sleep solemn sorrow soul speak spirit strong sublime suffer sure teaching thee thing thou THOU ART MINDFUL thought timate tion toil true truth turb virtue voice whole wisdom words worldly wrong
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Página 227 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Página 290 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Página 281 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he, being dead, yet speaketh.
Página 221 - But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Página 232 - If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin.
Página 238 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Página 294 - But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Página 187 - And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear...
Página 92 - Labour not for the meat that perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you, &c.
Página 254 - We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they ? with the years beyond the flood.