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... Happiness of that Society . These Ends do indeed perfectly coincide ; and to aim at publick and private Good are fo far from being inconfiftent , that they mutu- ally promote each other : Yet in the follow- ing Discourse they must be ...
... Happiness of that Society . These Ends do indeed perfectly coincide ; and to aim at publick and private Good are fo far from being inconfiftent , that they mutu- ally promote each other : Yet in the follow- ing Discourse they must be ...
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... Happiness , the other to the Mifery of our Fellow - Creatures , is it seems meerly an accidental Circumftance , which the Mind has not the leaft Regard to . These are the Absurdities which even Men of Capacity run into when they have oc ...
... Happiness , the other to the Mifery of our Fellow - Creatures , is it seems meerly an accidental Circumftance , which the Mind has not the leaft Regard to . These are the Absurdities which even Men of Capacity run into when they have oc ...
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... Happiness does not in fome further Respects depend . And as Self - love and the feveral particular Paffions and Appetites are in themselves totally different , fo that fome Actions proceed from one , and fome from the other , will be ...
... Happiness does not in fome further Respects depend . And as Self - love and the feveral particular Paffions and Appetites are in themselves totally different , fo that fome Actions proceed from one , and fome from the other , will be ...
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... Happiness of it , as that we were intend ed to take Care of our own Life , and Health , and private Good . And from this whole Review must be gi- ven a different Draught of Humane Nature from what we are often prefented with . Mankind ...
... Happiness of it , as that we were intend ed to take Care of our own Life , and Health , and private Good . And from this whole Review must be gi- ven a different Draught of Humane Nature from what we are often prefented with . Mankind ...
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... Happiness ; as they con- tradict that Part of it which refpects So- ciety , and tends to publick Good : That there are as few Perfons , who attain the greatest Satisfaction and Enjoyment which they might attain in the prefent World ; as ...
... Happiness ; as they con- tradict that Part of it which refpects So- ciety , and tends to publick Good : That there are as few Perfons , who attain the greatest Satisfaction and Enjoyment which they might attain in the prefent World ; as ...
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Página 257 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Página 170 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up : and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
Página 259 - ... of whom, and through whom, and to whom are all things...
Página 111 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Página 283 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun...
Página 288 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Página 134 - The indignation raised by cruelty and injustice, and the desire of having it punished, which persons unconcerned would feel, is by no means malice. No, it is resentment against vice and wickedness : it is one of the common bonds, by which society is held together; a fellow-feeling, which each individual has in behalf of the whole species, as well as of himself.
Página 286 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Página 39 - Your obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should walk in, but it likewise carries its own authority with it, that it is our natural guide ; the guide assigned us by the Author of our nature...