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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... blessing to an honeft man in diftrefs : for it is not its cafual mo- dification , but its relation to some final object which makes it either good or bad . After all what are these cruel torments which force you to abandon life ? Do you ...
... blessing to an honeft man in diftrefs : for it is not its cafual mo- dification , but its relation to some final object which makes it either good or bad . After all what are these cruel torments which force you to abandon life ? Do you ...
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... blessed ; and as he can , it is not improbable that he will , always condescending , in the circum- ftances of doing it , to the weaknefs and propor- tion of finite minds . His works but faintly re- flect the image of his perfections ...
... blessed ; and as he can , it is not improbable that he will , always condescending , in the circum- ftances of doing it , to the weaknefs and propor- tion of finite minds . His works but faintly re- flect the image of his perfections ...
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... blessed : but that fuch as had lived wickedly fhould go into the receptacle of damned fouls , named Tartarus , there to fuffer the punishments they deserved . But in all the reign of Saturn , and in the beginning of the reign of Jove ...
... blessed : but that fuch as had lived wickedly fhould go into the receptacle of damned fouls , named Tartarus , there to fuffer the punishments they deserved . But in all the reign of Saturn , and in the beginning of the reign of Jove ...
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... blessed , because God Almighty is capa- ble of making the foul happy by ten thousand dif- ferent ways . Befides thofe feveral avenues to plea- fure which the foul is endued with in this life , it is not impoffible , according to the ...
... blessed , because God Almighty is capa- ble of making the foul happy by ten thousand dif- ferent ways . Befides thofe feveral avenues to plea- fure which the foul is endued with in this life , it is not impoffible , according to the ...
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abfurd actions againſt arguments becauſe bleffing body cafe cauſe Chriftian circumftance confequence confider confideration courfe creatures death defigned defire deftroy diforder difpofe diſpoſe divine endeavour eſtabliſhed eternity evil exerciſe exiftence exiſtence faculties fame fatisfaction feems felves fenfes fenfible fentiments fhall fhort fhould fhow fince fingle firſt fociety fome fomething foul fpirit ftate ftation ftill fubject fublime fuch fuffer fufficient fuperior fuppofe fure fyftem greateſt happineſs happy hath himſelf hope human imagine immortality infinite intereft itſelf juft laft laws leaſt lefs likewiſe lives mankind mifery mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature obferve objects ourſelves paffion pain perfons Phædo philofophers pleafing pleaſed pleaſure poffeffed poffible prefent preſerve puniſhments purpoſe queftion raiſed reaſon reft ſay ſeems ſenſe ſhall ſome ſpace ſpeak ſtate ſuch Suicide ſuppoſe thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion underſtanding univerſe uſe virtue wiſdom yourſelf
Pasajes populares
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 79 - Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted? capacities that are never to be gratified?
Página 98 - ... as it generally happens, that virtue would make us more happy even in this life than a contrary...
Página 111 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...