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... fortune conduce to hap piness , it is not the income which any man possesses , but the increase of income that affords the pleasure . Two persons , of whom one begins with an hundred and advances his income to a thousand pounds a year ...
... fortune conduce to hap piness , it is not the income which any man possesses , but the increase of income that affords the pleasure . Two persons , of whom one begins with an hundred and advances his income to a thousand pounds a year ...
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William Paley. : same sum of money yet their satisfaction , so far as fortune is concerned in it , will be very different : the series and sum total of their income being the same , it makes a wide difference at which end they begin ...
William Paley. : same sum of money yet their satisfaction , so far as fortune is concerned in it , will be very different : the series and sum total of their income being the same , it makes a wide difference at which end they begin ...
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... fortune depends , require my vote , I give it him of course ; and my answer to all who ask me why I voted so and so , is , that my fa- ther or my master obliged me ; and that I had receiv ed so many favours from , or had so great a de ...
... fortune depends , require my vote , I give it him of course ; and my answer to all who ask me why I voted so and so , is , that my fa- ther or my master obliged me ; and that I had receiv ed so many favours from , or had so great a de ...
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... fortune ( as all design by this supposition is excluded ) both the ca pacity of our senses to receive pleasure , and the sup ply of external objects fitted to produce it . I But either of these , and still more both of The Divine ...
... fortune ( as all design by this supposition is excluded ) both the ca pacity of our senses to receive pleasure , and the sup ply of external objects fitted to produce it . I But either of these , and still more both of The Divine ...
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... fortune to annoy , corrupt , or oppress all about him . His estate would devolve , by his death , to a successor of an opposite character . is useful , therefore , to dispatch such a one as soon as possible out of the way ; as the ...
... fortune to annoy , corrupt , or oppress all about him . His estate would devolve , by his death , to a successor of an opposite character . is useful , therefore , to dispatch such a one as soon as possible out of the way ; as the ...
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Page 285 - See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
Page 292 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well.
Page 181 - And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church : but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Page 180 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Page 268 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Page 290 - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates : that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Page 54 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 328 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same : for he is the minister of God- to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain : for he is the minister o of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Page 289 - Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
Page 48 - Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the Will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.