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The faculties are strengthened by exercise; they can be strengthened in no other
way; and they are exercised rightly only by doing just the work which God
intended they should do. The moral powers, as a whole, can be so exercised as
to ...
The faculties are strengthened by exercise; they can be strengthened in no other
way; and they are exercised rightly only by doing just the work which God
intended they should do. The moral powers, as a whole, can be so exercised as
to ...
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He ls to be something, to choose and do something, and to enjoy something; and
his whole end will be, to be what God intended he should be, to choose and do
what He intended he should choose and do, and to enjoy what He intended he ...
He ls to be something, to choose and do something, and to enjoy something; and
his whole end will be, to be what God intended he should be, to choose and do
what He intended he should choose and do, and to enjoy what He intended he ...
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Viewing the end as God views it; voluntarily choosing this end; applying all his
powers as they were intended for its attainment, he would do all that he ought to
do, would have the approbation of God, the approbation of his own conscience, ...
Viewing the end as God views it; voluntarily choosing this end; applying all his
powers as they were intended for its attainment, he would do all that he ought to
do, would have the approbation of God, the approbation of his own conscience, ...
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In such cases we may indulge our preference; but no end may be chosen as
ultimate when it would conflict with that which is supreme. - Any ultimate end may
be adopted as supreme; but the wisdom of man consists in choosing that
intended ...
In such cases we may indulge our preference; but no end may be chosen as
ultimate when it would conflict with that which is supreme. - Any ultimate end may
be adopted as supreme; but the wisdom of man consists in choosing that
intended ...
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Nor is this highest good any mere happening, as is sometimes said of happiness;
nor is it the mere satisfying of any craving; it is that result in God's creatures that
was intended by him, and is an image of his own rational and holy blessedness ...
Nor is this highest good any mere happening, as is sometimes said of happiness;
nor is it the mere satisfying of any craving; it is that result in God's creatures that
was intended by him, and is an image of his own rational and holy blessedness ...
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Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, Boston Mark Hopkins Visualização integral - 1862 |
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according action activity affections animal appetites attainment beauty become believe body called cause cents character choice choose cloth conception condition connection conscience consciousness constitution desire direct distinction distinguished duty element enjoyment evil existence expression faculties faith feeling follow force give given ground happiness Hence higher highest human idea indicate individual instinct intellect intended interest involved kind knowledge lecture less liberty light limit lower matter means ment mind moral nature necessary never object obligation organization original ourselves perfect person philosophy pleasure possible present principle question rational reach reason reference regard relation require respect rule seek seems seen sense simply society sphere suppose supreme end things thought tion true truth ultimate universe virtue whole wholly wrong
Passagens conhecidas
Página 121 - All murder'd; for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Página 85 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Página 98 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Página 121 - And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Página 121 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Página 291 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Página 66 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Página 109 - And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under the heavens; this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
Página 151 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and CHANGED the glory of the uncorruptible God into AN IMAGE made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Página 61 - These pleasures, by repetition, lose their relish. It is a property of the machine, for which we know no remedy, that the organs, by which we perceive pleasure, are blunted and benumbed by being frequently exercised in the same way.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | LECTURES ON MORAL SCIENCE |
| Autor | MARK HOPKINS, D.D. LL.D. |
| Publicação | 1863 |
| Original de | Universidade de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 17 Fev 2006 |
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