Essays on the Principles of Morality, and on the Private and Political Rights and Obligations of Mankind |
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... human actions might be rightly estimated . Such an object , it is obvious , could not be attained without bringing the writer into direct collision with the most prominent of the extant theories of moral obligation , particularly that ...
... human actions might be rightly estimated . Such an object , it is obvious , could not be attained without bringing the writer into direct collision with the most prominent of the extant theories of moral obligation , particularly that ...
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... human life in those spheres of action which are seldom apt to attract the notice of the meditative philosopher . Indeed it is the strong vein of practical good sense running through the volume which constitutes a leading feature of its ...
... human life in those spheres of action which are seldom apt to attract the notice of the meditative philosopher . Indeed it is the strong vein of practical good sense running through the volume which constitutes a leading feature of its ...
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... human duty is ascertained . In short , the whole system of moral legislation , as it is exhibited in Scripture , is a system founded upon authority . The propriety , the utility of the requisitions are not made of importance . That ...
... human duty is ascertained . In short , the whole system of moral legislation , as it is exhibited in Scripture , is a system founded upon authority . The propriety , the utility of the requisitions are not made of importance . That ...
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... human happiness , therefore you are bound to obey them but he says , They are my precepts , therefore you are to obey them . So habitually is this principle borne in mind , if we may so speak , by those who were commissioned to ...
... human happiness , therefore you are bound to obey them but he says , They are my precepts , therefore you are to obey them . So habitually is this principle borne in mind , if we may so speak , by those who were commissioned to ...
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... human duty from a consideration of the attributes of God - Virtue : " Virtue is conformity with the standard of rectitude " -Motives of action . CHAP . V. SCRIPTURE 43 The morality of the Patriarchal , Mosaic , and Christian ...
... human duty from a consideration of the attributes of God - Virtue : " Virtue is conformity with the standard of rectitude " -Motives of action . CHAP . V. SCRIPTURE 43 The morality of the Patriarchal , Mosaic , and Christian ...
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Page 411 - Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Page 414 - Then said he unto them, But now he that hath a purse let him take it, and likewise his scrip : and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.
Page 64 - But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you : but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Page 100 - And it .came to pass, that as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Page 54 - Forbearing one another and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Page 414 - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 141 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 94 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17. Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ 18.
Page 334 - For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die : but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
Page 151 - For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers...