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Page vi
... exercise of those fa- culties which are peculiar to you as men . If you have no higher object than the gratification of your animal appetites and paffions , you rank your- felves with the brute beafts ; but , as you will still retain ...
... exercise of those fa- culties which are peculiar to you as men . If you have no higher object than the gratification of your animal appetites and paffions , you rank your- felves with the brute beafts ; but , as you will still retain ...
Page xxxv
... exercise . If it can be made agreeable to the peo- ple , I would also advise that the minister deliver the heads of his system in a fet of regular discourses to the congregation at large , once in four or five years , that those persons ...
... exercise . If it can be made agreeable to the peo- ple , I would also advise that the minister deliver the heads of his system in a fet of regular discourses to the congregation at large , once in four or five years , that those persons ...
Page xxxix
... exercise as this , which is equally calcu- lated to improve the most knowing , as well as to instruct the most ignorant . These three claffes appear to me to be fufficient for the purpose of communicat- ing religious inftruction ; at ...
... exercise as this , which is equally calcu- lated to improve the most knowing , as well as to instruct the most ignorant . These three claffes appear to me to be fufficient for the purpose of communicat- ing religious inftruction ; at ...
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... exercise , they are always happy ; health and enjoyment having a natural and ne- ceffary connection through the whole fyf- tem of nature ; whereas it can hardly be imagined , but that a malevolent being , or one who should have made ...
... exercise , they are always happy ; health and enjoyment having a natural and ne- ceffary connection through the whole fyf- tem of nature ; whereas it can hardly be imagined , but that a malevolent being , or one who should have made ...
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... exercise both for our paffions and our understandings , and they also heighten our relish of the good that we meet with . The more attention we give to evils of all kinds , the more good do we fee to accompany them , or to fol- low them ...
... exercise both for our paffions and our understandings , and they also heighten our relish of the good that we meet with . The more attention we give to evils of all kinds , the more good do we fee to accompany them , or to fol- low them ...
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