Horæ vacivæ, a thought-book of the wise spirits of all ages and all countries, collected, arranged and ed. by J. Elmes1851 |
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... fentiment on moral , phi- lofophical and religious Truth ; and particularly as tending to prove the con- formity of Reason with Revelation . The Editor , having fuffered from deprivation of fight for more than four years , was.
... fentiment on moral , phi- lofophical and religious Truth ; and particularly as tending to prove the con- formity of Reason with Revelation . The Editor , having fuffered from deprivation of fight for more than four years , was.
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... reasons ; of good eating and ill living . It is the plague of fociety , the corrupter of manners and the underminer of property . - JEREMY COLLIER , 3. No atheist , as fuch , can be a true friend , an affectionate relation or a loyal ...
... reasons ; of good eating and ill living . It is the plague of fociety , the corrupter of manners and the underminer of property . - JEREMY COLLIER , 3. No atheist , as fuch , can be a true friend , an affectionate relation or a loyal ...
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... reason of which may be found , per- haps , in the different life and morals of the one and the other . Nay , the wifeft politi- cians and hiftorians have been believers as Livy , according to Tacitus was * Virgil died A. C. 735 ...
... reason of which may be found , per- haps , in the different life and morals of the one and the other . Nay , the wifeft politi- cians and hiftorians have been believers as Livy , according to Tacitus was * Virgil died A. C. 735 ...
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... reason with precision , and can separate argument from fallacy , the clear fimple rules of pure unfophifticated logic ; if he can fix his attention and steadily pursue Truth through any of the moft intricate de- ductions by the use of ...
... reason with precision , and can separate argument from fallacy , the clear fimple rules of pure unfophifticated logic ; if he can fix his attention and steadily pursue Truth through any of the moft intricate de- ductions by the use of ...
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... reason , their writings are not fo univerfally read or candidly received as they deferve ; because they are fuppofed to proceed , not from confcience and conviction , but from interested views , and the common cause of their profeffion ...
... reason , their writings are not fo univerfally read or candidly received as they deferve ; because they are fuppofed to proceed , not from confcience and conviction , but from interested views , and the common cause of their profeffion ...
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Page 131 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end: of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power: both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 27 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Page 45 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 127 - Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable, or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within, all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Page 174 - We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force: God therefore left him free, set before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.
Page 142 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 127 - God rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Page 91 - Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him : a new friend is as new wine ; when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Page 133 - I here give you then} to dispose of. £The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him...
Page 86 - The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter, and a scarcity of words; for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. So people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door.