The Works of Soame Jenyns,esq. ...T. Cadell, 1793 |
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... means by which their obedience can be obtained ; a propo- fition , which feems as inconteftible , as that every effect must have a caufe . That all government VOL . III . C government must be disagreeable to thofe who are governed , [ 17 ]
... means by which their obedience can be obtained ; a propo- fition , which feems as inconteftible , as that every effect must have a caufe . That all government VOL . III . C government must be disagreeable to thofe who are governed , [ 17 ]
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... fuit , for farther fatisfaction . The production of happiness feems to be the only motive that could induce infinite goodness to exert infinite power to create all things ; things ; for , to fay truth , happiness is [ 56 ] LETTER III. ...
... fuit , for farther fatisfaction . The production of happiness feems to be the only motive that could induce infinite goodness to exert infinite power to create all things ; things ; for , to fay truth , happiness is [ 56 ] LETTER III. ...
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... feems to play the tyrant , ingenious in con- triving torments for her children ; that we cannot avoid seeing every moment with hor- ror numbers of our fellow - creatures con- demned to tedious and intolerable miferies , fome expiring on ...
... feems to play the tyrant , ingenious in con- triving torments for her children ; that we cannot avoid seeing every moment with hor- ror numbers of our fellow - creatures con- demned to tedious and intolerable miferies , fome expiring on ...
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... feems , I think , ftrongly to intimate , that pain abftractedly confidered must have its uses ; and fince we may be affured , that it is never admitted but with the reluctance of the fupreme author , thofe ufes must be of the highest ...
... feems , I think , ftrongly to intimate , that pain abftractedly confidered must have its uses ; and fince we may be affured , that it is never admitted but with the reluctance of the fupreme author , thofe ufes must be of the highest ...
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... can be founded on no other principle than this , of the neceffity of pain to produce happiness , which feems another weighty instance of the probability of of this ancient and univerfal opinion , though the reasons [ 70 ]
... can be founded on no other principle than this , of the neceffity of pain to produce happiness , which feems another weighty instance of the probability of of this ancient and univerfal opinion , though the reasons [ 70 ]
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 53 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Seite 29 - 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.
Seite 49 - 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.
Seite 63 - There are truths which, as they are always necessary, do not grow stale by repetition. " Death, the last and most dreadful of all Evils, is so far from being one, that it is the infallible cure for all others. To die, is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never beat, nor tempests roar. Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er.
Seite 49 - ... insensibility which can enable them to endure the miseries of the one and the fatigues of the other. 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.
Seite 50 - I have ever thought it a most remarkable instance of the divine wisdom, that whereas in all animals, whose individuals rise little above the rest of their species, knowledge is instinctive; in man, whose individuals are so widely different, it is acquired by education; by which means the prince and the labourer, the philosopher and the peasant, are in some measure fitted for their respective situations.
Seite 192 - ... native conftitution; and is a remarkable confirmation of what revelation fo frequently inculcates— that he brings into the world with him an original depravity, the effects of a fallen and degenerate ftate 5 in proof of which we need...
Seite 114 - Woe unto the world because of offences, for it must needs be that offences come ; but woe unto that man by whom the offence cometh.
Seite 194 - ... pretence of feeding, and drag him from his native element by a hook fixed to and tearing out his entrails : and, to add to all this, they...
Seite 32 - TSfo rule but uncorrupted reafon knew; And, with a native bent, did good purfue. Unforc'd by punifhment, unaw'd by fear, His words were fimple, and his foul fincere...