The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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... present pleas- ure to a future advantage , which he judges will be greater when it comes ; then a lesser present pleasure appears more agreeable to him than a greater advantage at a distance . If , on the contrary , a future advantage ...
... present pleas- ure to a future advantage , which he judges will be greater when it comes ; then a lesser present pleasure appears more agreeable to him than a greater advantage at a distance . If , on the contrary , a future advantage ...
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... present purpose . I shall therefore only mention some things in general . 1. One thing that makes an object proposed to choice agreeable , is the apparent nature and circumstances of the object . And there are various things of this ...
... present purpose . I shall therefore only mention some things in general . 1. One thing that makes an object proposed to choice agreeable , is the apparent nature and circumstances of the object . And there are various things of this ...
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... present , or future , we have much more of an idea or apprehension of some things than others ; that is , our idea is much more clear , lively and strong . Thus the ideas we have of sensible things by immediate sensation , are usually ...
... present , or future , we have much more of an idea or apprehension of some things than others ; that is , our idea is much more clear , lively and strong . Thus the ideas we have of sensible things by immediate sensation , are usually ...
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... present appears to him , most agreeable to speak , then he chooses to speak : If it suits him best to keep silence , then he chooses to keep silence . There is scarcely a plainer and more universal dictate of the sense and experience of ...
... present appears to him , most agreeable to speak , then he chooses to speak : If it suits him best to keep silence , then he chooses to keep silence . There is scarcely a plainer and more universal dictate of the sense and experience of ...
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... present and past existence of it , may by this means be made certain , and necessarily and un- alterably true . The past event has fixed and decided the mat- ter , as to its existence ; and has made it impossible but that existence ...
... present and past existence of it , may by this means be made certain , and necessarily and un- alterably true . The past event has fixed and decided the mat- ter , as to its existence ; and has made it impossible but that existence ...
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