The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley, Volume 25G. Smallfield, 1780 - Theology |
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... considered , as a fundamental preliminary , that the chief and proper object of education is not to form a shining and popular character , but an useful one , this being also the only founda- tion of real happiness : and that there are ...
... considered , as a fundamental preliminary , that the chief and proper object of education is not to form a shining and popular character , but an useful one , this being also the only founda- tion of real happiness : and that there are ...
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... liberal philosophical science should be considered as the proper and general pursuit of the man of fortune , who thereby does not seclude himself from VOL . XXV . C society , but is always ready to serve it in OBSERVATIONS ON EDUCATION .
... liberal philosophical science should be considered as the proper and general pursuit of the man of fortune , who thereby does not seclude himself from VOL . XXV . C society , but is always ready to serve it in OBSERVATIONS ON EDUCATION .
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... considered as a most rational , useful , and honourable pursuit , will be treated as nothing more than a particular species of amuse- ment , and barely excusable in persons who have no serious business to employ themselves about . To ...
... considered as a most rational , useful , and honourable pursuit , will be treated as nothing more than a particular species of amuse- ment , and barely excusable in persons who have no serious business to employ themselves about . To ...
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... ( considered in itself ) a wrong turn , must be of great disservice to him in life . It is also well known , that the man who is haughty towards his inferiors , is generally , in the same proportion , cringing towards his superiors ...
... ( considered in itself ) a wrong turn , must be of great disservice to him in life . It is also well known , that the man who is haughty towards his inferiors , is generally , in the same proportion , cringing towards his superiors ...
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... kind is always greatly enhanced by the rarity and novelty of it , by being considered as fashionable , and allowed as an extraor- dinary favour . Were these artificial charms removed , and 34 OBSERVATIONS ON EDUCATION .
... kind is always greatly enhanced by the rarity and novelty of it , by being considered as fashionable , and allowed as an extraor- dinary favour . Were these artificial charms removed , and 34 OBSERVATIONS ON EDUCATION .
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Page 103 - Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions...
Page 58 - Remove far from me vanity and lies : give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord 1 or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 79 - Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul...
Page 21 - In his pleading he abhorred those too common faults of misreciting evidences, quoting precedents or books falsely, or asserting things confidently, by which ignorant juries, or weak judges, are too often wrought on. He pleaded with the same sincerity that he used in the other parts of his life, and used to say it was as great a dishonour as a man was capable of, that for a little money he was to be hired to say or do otherwise than as he thought.
Page 89 - Mankind will never be in an eminent degree virtuous and happy, till each man shall possess that portion of distinction, and no more, to which he is entitled by his personal merits.
Page 145 - The Unitarian Society for promoting Christian Knowledge and the practice of Virtue, by the distribution of books.
Page 326 - Lusts of the Flesh, the Lusts of the Eye, and the Pride of Life,' must be watched against and conquered.
Page 7 - Could I but get over some nice points, and conform to the practice and opinion of those about me, I might stand as fair a chance as others for dignities and preferment.
Page 392 - This I have heard him say many times. It was at his request, enforced by that of Dr. Fothergilj that I wrote an anonymous pamphlet, calculated to show the injustice and impolicy of a war with the colonies, previous to the meeting of a new parliament. As I then lived at Leeds, he corrected the press himself, and, to a passage, in which I lamented the attempt to establish arbitrary power in so large a part of the British empire, he added the following clause, " to the imminent danger of our most valuable...
Page 351 - A philosopher ought to be something greater and better than another man. The contemplation of the works of God should give a sublimity to his virtue, should expand his benevolence, extinguish every thing mean, base, and selfish in his nature, give a dignity to all his sentiments, and teach him to aspire to the moral perfections of the great Author of all things.