Elements of Moral Philosophy and of Christian Ethics, Volume 1J. Duncan, 1826 - Christian ethics |
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... consider man as a sensi- tive , an intelligent , a moral , and a social being . How very different in its effects on the understanding and the heart is the knowledge of human nature acquired in the exercise of those liberal views and ...
... consider man as a sensi- tive , an intelligent , a moral , and a social being . How very different in its effects on the understanding and the heart is the knowledge of human nature acquired in the exercise of those liberal views and ...
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... consider it under its worst appear- ances . They give mean interpretations and base motives to the worthiest actions ; they resolve virtue and vice into constitution ; in short , they endeavour to make no distinction between man and man ...
... consider it under its worst appear- ances . They give mean interpretations and base motives to the worthiest actions ; they resolve virtue and vice into constitution ; in short , they endeavour to make no distinction between man and man ...
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... consider it . The specu lations connected with either logic or belles lettres , or natural religion , or ethics , or political economy , seem to be interminable ; and one of these divisions of the philosophy of mind will afford more ...
... consider it . The specu lations connected with either logic or belles lettres , or natural religion , or ethics , or political economy , seem to be interminable ; and one of these divisions of the philosophy of mind will afford more ...
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... consider the nature of those duties which we owe to the Creator , to our fellow - creatures , and to ourselves , -and to carry our researches into the darkness of that futurity which lies beyond us , we cannot expect that our judgments ...
... consider the nature of those duties which we owe to the Creator , to our fellow - creatures , and to ourselves , -and to carry our researches into the darkness of that futurity which lies beyond us , we cannot expect that our judgments ...
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... consider , and with their several relations and habitudes , and not amuse ourselves with floating names , and words of indetermined signification , which we can use in several senses to serve a turn . It is in the perception of the ...
... consider , and with their several relations and habitudes , and not amuse ourselves with floating names , and words of indetermined signification , which we can use in several senses to serve a turn . It is in the perception of the ...
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