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... the logical error just mentioned it is owing that so many false accounts have been given of the * Preface to Priestley's History of Electricity . principles of human conduct , or of the motives from 98 PHILOSOPHY OF THE ACTIVE.
... the logical error just mentioned it is owing that so many false accounts have been given of the * Preface to Priestley's History of Electricity . principles of human conduct , or of the motives from 98 PHILOSOPHY OF THE ACTIVE.
Page 99
Dugald Stewart. principles of human conduct , or of the motives from which our actions proceed . When the general laws of our constitution are attentively examined they will be found to have for their object the happiness and improvement ...
Dugald Stewart. principles of human conduct , or of the motives from which our actions proceed . When the general laws of our constitution are attentively examined they will be found to have for their object the happiness and improvement ...
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... motive could have induced a Being , completely and independently happy , to call his creatures into existence . In this manner , then , without going farther than our own moral perceptions , we have a strong argu- ment for the moral ...
... motive could have induced a Being , completely and independently happy , to call his creatures into existence . In this manner , then , without going farther than our own moral perceptions , we have a strong argu- ment for the moral ...
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... motive of love that an affectionate parent rewards the obedience , and punishes the disobedience of his child . It is , I think , a very fine and profound ob- servation of Maupertuis , " that the concern which " arises from repentance ...
... motive of love that an affectionate parent rewards the obedience , and punishes the disobedience of his child . It is , I think , a very fine and profound ob- servation of Maupertuis , " that the concern which " arises from repentance ...
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... motive , but from a momentary forgetfulness of what is due to public opinion ! The common complaint , therefore , we hear of the prevalence of vice in the world , ( I mean the opinion of good and candid men on the subject , for I speak ...
... motive , but from a momentary forgetfulness of what is due to public opinion ! The common complaint , therefore , we hear of the prevalence of vice in the world , ( I mean the opinion of good and candid men on the subject , for I speak ...
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