Thoughts on the Cause of Evil, Physical and Moral: In a Series of Letters |
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... solely by moral causes : he says , " As to physi- cal causes , I am inclined to doubt altogether of their operation in this particular * . " Presuming to differ on this interesting subject from this most able writer , I would undertake ...
... solely by moral causes : he says , " As to physi- cal causes , I am inclined to doubt altogether of their operation in this particular * . " Presuming to differ on this interesting subject from this most able writer , I would undertake ...
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... solely to a moral cause , when it is the heat of the climate that obliges them to go half - naked ? He proceeds : " This makes parents and husbands more jealous and reserved ; which still farther inflames the passion . Not to mention ...
... solely to a moral cause , when it is the heat of the climate that obliges them to go half - naked ? He proceeds : " This makes parents and husbands more jealous and reserved ; which still farther inflames the passion . Not to mention ...
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... solely to moral causes . He proceeds : " Perhaps , too , the fact is false , that nature has , either from moral or physical causes , distributed these different inclinations to the different climates . The ancient Greeks , though born ...
... solely to moral causes . He proceeds : " Perhaps , too , the fact is false , that nature has , either from moral or physical causes , distributed these different inclinations to the different climates . The ancient Greeks , though born ...
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... sole cause of his thoughts : and yet some men believe ( for what is it that men have not believed ? ) that though they cannot think without this impulse , they can think contrary to its di- rection ; which is to say , that an effect ...
... sole cause of his thoughts : and yet some men believe ( for what is it that men have not believed ? ) that though they cannot think without this impulse , they can think contrary to its di- rection ; which is to say , that an effect ...
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... solely by the de- composition of other portions of matter , is incomprehensible by man : that all animals and vegetables do so , is obvious : Are they , therefore , spirits ? In my humble opinion it is as absurd to ask is thought matter ...
... solely by the de- composition of other portions of matter , is incomprehensible by man : that all animals and vegetables do so , is obvious : Are they , therefore , spirits ? In my humble opinion it is as absurd to ask is thought matter ...
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Page 26 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 87 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 167 - Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Page 167 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat, all the days of thy life: and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page 146 - And Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians; and the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord, and his servant Moses.
Page 145 - But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
Page 144 - And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
Page 137 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Page 25 - The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to dcath for his own sin.
Page 55 - Whatever it be that forms the manners of one generation, the next must imbibe a deeper tincture of the same dye; men being more susceptible of all impressions during infancy, and retaining these impressions as long as they remain in the world.