Essays on suicide and the immortality of the soul. With remarks by the editor. To which are added two letters on suicide, from Rousseau's Eloisa. [Followed by] On the immortality of the soul, and a future state, by mr. Addison1799 |
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Side 20
... reflection on neceffity and public intereft ? By the Roman law those who had been guilty of parricide , and confeffed their crime , were put into a fack along with an ape , a dog , and a ferpent , and thrown into the river . Death alone ...
... reflection on neceffity and public intereft ? By the Roman law those who had been guilty of parricide , and confeffed their crime , were put into a fack along with an ape , a dog , and a ferpent , and thrown into the river . Death alone ...
Side 21
... reflection , approve of it provided the crime was not herefy or infidelity ; for as thefe crimes hurt himself in his temporal interest and advantages , perhaps he may not be altogether fo indulgent to them . The chief fource of moral ...
... reflection , approve of it provided the crime was not herefy or infidelity ; for as thefe crimes hurt himself in his temporal interest and advantages , perhaps he may not be altogether fo indulgent to them . The chief fource of moral ...
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... reflected image of her all - perfect Creator , in whom eternally , dwells all beauty and excellence . Were man only endowed with a principle of vegetation , fixed to one peculiar spot , and 6 infenfible of all that paffed around him ...
... reflected image of her all - perfect Creator , in whom eternally , dwells all beauty and excellence . Were man only endowed with a principle of vegetation , fixed to one peculiar spot , and 6 infenfible of all that paffed around him ...
Side 45
... reflection , imagine that fuch a being as the human foul , adorned with fuch extenfive intellectual powers , will ever ceafe to be the object of that love and care which eternally holds the universe in its embrace ? Did fhe obtain fuch ...
... reflection , imagine that fuch a being as the human foul , adorned with fuch extenfive intellectual powers , will ever ceafe to be the object of that love and care which eternally holds the universe in its embrace ? Did fhe obtain fuch ...
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... reflections proper , and I liked you not only from judgment but choice ; for I con- fidered your influence as an additional motive to excite me to the ftudy of wisdom . But what do I perceive now in the arguments of your letter , with ...
... reflections proper , and I liked you not only from judgment but choice ; for I con- fidered your influence as an additional motive to excite me to the ftudy of wisdom . But what do I perceive now in the arguments of your letter , with ...
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Side 111 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. 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.
Side 113 - ... is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Side 77 - But can we believe a thinking being, that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries?
Side 115 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Side 77 - Being, whose justice, goodness, wisdom, and veracity, are all concerned in this great point. But among these and other excellent arguments for the immortality of the soul, there is one drawn from the perpetual progress...
Side 80 - With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhausted sources of perfection ? We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart of man to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for him.
Side 77 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass in a few years ; he has all the endowments he is capable of, and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Side 79 - Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted? capacities that are never to be gratified?
Side 98 - ... as it generally happens, that virtue would make us more happy even in this life than a contrary...
Side 111 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...