A Free Inquiry Into the Nature and Origin of Evil: In Six Letters to -G. and A. Ewing, 1758 - 195 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 7
... yourself , that the highest principle , which is the love of GOD , is beft attained not by dark speculations and monkish philofophy , but by moral practice , and love of mankind , and a study of their in- terefts : the chief of which ...
... yourself , that the highest principle , which is the love of GOD , is beft attained not by dark speculations and monkish philofophy , but by moral practice , and love of mankind , and a study of their in- terefts : the chief of which ...
الصفحة 9
... , therefore , to reftrain yourself within due bounds ; and to adapt your contem- plation to what you are capable of practising . For there is a fort of Spiritual ambition : and in reading those truly divine authors , whom you have in 197.
... , therefore , to reftrain yourself within due bounds ; and to adapt your contem- plation to what you are capable of practising . For there is a fort of Spiritual ambition : and in reading those truly divine authors , whom you have in 197.
الصفحة 10
... yourself above the rank of fordid and fenfual spirits , who , tho ' set apart and destin'd to fpirituals , understand not , that there is any thing preparatory to it , beyond a little scholar- fhip and knowledge of forms . I rejoice to ...
... yourself above the rank of fordid and fenfual spirits , who , tho ' set apart and destin'd to fpirituals , understand not , that there is any thing preparatory to it , beyond a little scholar- fhip and knowledge of forms . I rejoice to ...
الصفحة 19
... yourself : for if it be truly fuch , it will be in no pain . for being kept fecret . And thus you may be safe , and in due time , perhaps , useful also to others . Learn to discourse and reason with yourself , or , as you honestly do ...
... yourself : for if it be truly fuch , it will be in no pain . for being kept fecret . And thus you may be safe , and in due time , perhaps , useful also to others . Learn to discourse and reason with yourself , or , as you honestly do ...
الصفحة 21
... your very furprizing letter , which brought fo good an account of yourself , and a proof how well you had spent your time , during this your long filence . B 3 ' Twas ' Twas providential , furely , that I should happen ( 21 )
... your very furprizing letter , which brought fo good an account of yourself , and a proof how well you had spent your time , during this your long filence . B 3 ' Twas ' Twas providential , furely , that I should happen ( 21 )
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abfolute abfurd abuſe affairs againſt alſo anſwer arife becauſe beſt buſineſs cafe cauſe Chriftian circumſtances confequences confiftent corruption cou'd creatures Dear SIR defign divine exiftence exiſtence falfe fame feems felf felves fenfe fervant ferve fervice fhall fhew fhou'd fince fincere firſt fome foon friendſhip fubject fuch fufferings fufficiently fuperior fupport fure fyftem goodneſs Government greateſt happineſs higheſt himſelf honeft human imperfect impoffible infinite Power intereft itſelf juftice kind leaft leaſt lefs LETTER lord lord Somers lordſhip mankind Mifery minifters moft Moral Evil moſt muft muſt myſelf nation Natural Evils neceffary neceffity never numbers occafion ourſelves perfect Philofophers pleaſure poffible preferve prevented publick puniſhment raiſe reafon receiv'd Religion reſpect ſay ſee ſeem ſenſe SHAFTESBURY ſhall ſhe ſome ſpeak ſtate ſtill ſtudy ſuch thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thouſand tion treaſurer truth underſtand univerfal uſe vices virtue wiſdom wiſh wou'd yourſelf
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الصفحة 4 - 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.
الصفحة 5 - No one has done more towards the recalling of philosophy from barbarity into use and practice of the world, and into the company of the better and politer sort, who might well be ashamed of it in its other dress. No one has opened a better or clearer way to reasoning.
الصفحة 38 - Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly spread the flowery lawn : Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings ? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings.
الصفحة 34 - It is a cordial administered by the gracious hand of Providence ; of which they ought never to be deprived by an ill-judged and improper education.
الصفحة 33 - Ignorance, or the want of knowledge and literature, the appointed lot of all born to poverty, and the drudgeries of life, is the only opiate capable of infusing that insensibility which can enable them to endure the miseries of the one and the fatigues of the other.
الصفحة 30 - S 3 enjoying enjoying happinefs themfelves, and contributing to that of others, they muft necefiarily be filled with inferior Beings, that is, with fuch as are lefs perfect, but from whofe exiftence, notwithftanding that lefs perfection, more felicity upon the whole accrues to the Univerfe, than if no fuch had been created. It is moreover highly probable, that there is fuch a...
الصفحة 36 - ... chain can be broke, the fame reafon for difquiet muft remain to thofe who fucceed to that chafm, which muft be occafioned by our preferment. A man can have no reafon to repine, that he is not an angel, nor a horfe that he is not a man ; much lefs, that in their feveral ftations they pofTefs not the faculties of another; for this would be an infufferable misfortune.
الصفحة 184 - ... interests; and if connected, it 'must inevitably be perverted by them. Whenever temporal 'advantages are annexed to any religious profession, they will 'be sure to call in all those who have no religion at all: knaves 'will embrace it for the sake of interest; fools will follow them 'for the sake of fashion ; and when once it is in such hands, 'Omnipotence itself can never preserve its purity. That very 'order of men, who are maintained to...
الصفحة 38 - Has God, thou fool ! work'd folely for thy good, Thy joy, thy paftime, thy attire, thy food ? Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, for him as kindly fpread the flow'ry lawn.