A treatise on the records of the Creation, and on the moral attributes of the Creator, Volum 2 |
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Side vi
... Fortunes , Ranks , and Conditions . CHAP . IV . Whether Equality or Inequality of Ranks and Fortunes is the Condition best suited to the Exercise of Virtue . Page 85 Effect of a Community of Goods upon the Opportunities of Virtue ...
... Fortunes , Ranks , and Conditions . CHAP . IV . Whether Equality or Inequality of Ranks and Fortunes is the Condition best suited to the Exercise of Virtue . Page 85 Effect of a Community of Goods upon the Opportunities of Virtue ...
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... Fortunes , is the Condition best suited to the Developement and Improvement of the human Faculties . BEFORE I proceed to explain the action of a principle on which so much depends , and the mode of its operation , it will be requi- site ...
... Fortunes , is the Condition best suited to the Developement and Improvement of the human Faculties . BEFORE I proceed to explain the action of a principle on which so much depends , and the mode of its operation , it will be requi- site ...
Side 32
... fortune ? If this question were to be decided à priori , and without reference to experience and ob- servation , it would certainly be determined in favour of equality . For what can be more promising as an ideal picture , than a state ...
... fortune ? If this question were to be decided à priori , and without reference to experience and ob- servation , it would certainly be determined in favour of equality . For what can be more promising as an ideal picture , than a state ...
Side 61
... fortunes and conditions , as tending both to produce that perfection , and to maintain it . * 66 The established administra- * I am aware it may be thought that I have paid too much attention to a writer now so completely forgotten as ...
... fortunes and conditions , as tending both to produce that perfection , and to maintain it . * 66 The established administra- * I am aware it may be thought that I have paid too much attention to a writer now so completely forgotten as ...
Side 63
... fortune , are twofold - intellectual and moral . With respect to the first , how rapid , it is said , " would be the advances of intellect , if all men were admitted into the field of know- ledge ! At present , ninety - nine persons in ...
... fortune , are twofold - intellectual and moral . With respect to the first , how rapid , it is said , " would be the advances of intellect , if all men were admitted into the field of know- ledge ! At present , ninety - nine persons in ...
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Side 243 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Side 125 - Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan ; and Lot journeyed east : and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Side 124 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Side 241 - By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: that in blessing I will bless thee...
Side 243 - Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer; behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried ; and ye shall have tribulation ten days : be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Side 79 - Compared, indeed, with the more extravagant luxury of the great, his accommodation must no doubt appear extremely simple and easy; and yet it may be true, perhaps, that the accommodation of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant, as the accommodation of the latter exceeds that of many an African king, the absolute master of the lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages.
Side 283 - It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer evening, on whichever side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view. "The insect youth are on the wing.
Side 323 - When providence divided the earth among a few lordly masters, it neither forgot nor abandoned those who seemed to have been left out in the partition. These last too enjoy their share of all that it produces. In what constitutes the real happiness of human life, they are in no respect inferior to those who would seem so much above them.
Side 383 - The Tartar, accustomed to roam over extensive plains, and to subsist on the product of his herds, imprecates upon his enemy, as the greatest of all curses, that he may be condemned to reside in one place, and to be nourished with the top of a weed. The rude Americans, fond of their own pursuits, and satisfied with their own lot, are equally...
Side 239 - Samuel, and of the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.