To do good to others ; to sacrifice for their benefit your own wishes ; to love your neighbour as yourself; to forgive your enemies; to restrain your passions; to honour your parents; to respect those who are set over you : these, and a few others, are... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 4651858Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1867 - 672 pages
...undergone so little change as those great dogmas of which moral systems are composed. To do good to others ; to sacrifice for their benefit your own wishes...by all the sermons, homilies, and text-books which moralists and theologians have been able to produce.'1 The province of the intellect, on the other... | |
| Augustus S. Wilkins - Christian ethics - 1870 - 234 pages
...undergone so little change as those great dogmas of which moral systems are composed. .To do good to others, to sacrifice for their benefit your own wishes,...the sole essentials of morals. But they have been 1 Leland's Deistical Writers, Vol. I. pp. I12 — 130. 3 Cf. Trench's Hulsean Lectures, p. j=;6, and... | |
| John Morley - Literature - 1871 - 398 pages
...wishes ; to love your neighbour as yourself ; to forgive your enemies ; to restrain your passions ; to respect those who are set over you ; — these,...by all the sermons, homilies, and text-books which moralists and theologians have been able to produce.' To this the writer (1) No. XCV. 1868. the circumstances... | |
| Great Britain - 1871 - 970 pages
...others ; to sacrifice for their benefit your own wishes; to lore your neighbour as yourself; to forgvre your enemies ; to restrain your passions ; to honour...but they have been known for thousands of years." * Yet, if we have made little advance in the " rule of life," we certainly have taken great strides... | |
| John Morley - Literature - 1871 - 396 pages
...to forgive your enemies ; to restrain your passions; to respect those who are set over you;—these, and a few others, are the sole essentials of morals;...by all the sermons, homilies, and text-books which moralists and theologians have been able to produce.' To this the writer (1) No. XCV. 18G8. in the... | |
| John Morley - Literature - 1871 - 400 pages
...amplification. The elements of the moral law are very much the same at one time as at another. ' To do good to others ; to sacrifice for their benefit your own wishes...forgive your enemies ; to restrain your passions ; to respect those who are set over you ; — these, and a few others, are the sole essentials of morals... | |
| Charles E. Grinnell - Bible - 1871 - 404 pages
...alteration as those great dogmas of which moral systems are composed. To reverence God, to do good to others, to sacrifice for their benefit your •own wishes, to love your neighbor as yourself, to forgive your enemies, to restrain your passions, to preserve your integrity,... | |
| John Richard T. Eaton - 1873 - 450 pages
...doubtless if the whole moral furniture of our being is contained in a few short precepts, " to do good to others, to sacrifice for their benefit your own wishes,...your parents, to respect those who are set over you;" if this be all (as Mr. Buckle alleges), 1 there might not remain much to be said Untrue, as to the... | |
| William Gresley - Apologetics - 1875 - 328 pages
...Gospel are incapable of being reduced to a science, they are so simple and plain. To do good to others, to love your neighbour as yourself, to forgive your...restrain your passions, to honour your parents, to love GOD — these maxims are anterior to all science and philosophy, and independent of them. "The... | |
| William Gresley - Apologetics - 1875 - 328 pages
...Gospel are incapable of being reduced to a science, they are so simple and plain. To do good to others, to love your neighbour as yourself, to forgive your...restrain your passions, to honour your parents, to love GOD — these maxims are anterior to all science and philosophy, and independent of them. " The... | |
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