Christian Ethics: Or, The True Moral Manhood and Life of Duty. A Text-book for Schools and CollegesEldridge & Brother, 1875 - 346 Seiten |
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accomplishment accordance action activity affection agent appear apply authority becomes binding body bring cause character Christian civil complete condition conduct conscience consciousness course culture depend desires direct divine duty elements essential Ethics evident evil exercise existence experience expression fact feelings forces freedom furnish give given happiness higher highest human idea important individual influence intellect intelligence intuitive involved judgment knowledge lead man's manhood mankind means mind mission moral Moral Governor moral law moral nature motive nature necessary obedience object obligation origin parents perfect physical possible practical present principles proper rational reach reason regard relations religious requires responsible revelation rule Says Second secure seek seen sense shown social society soul spirit Subject task theory things Topic true truth universe various vice virtue virtuous wrong
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Seite 165 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that as a mechanism it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold logic engine with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working order; ready like a steam engine to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Seite 289 - Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Seite 280 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, . Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music...
Seite 165 - ... whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Seite 319 - From these things it follows, that in questions of difficulty, or such as are thought so, where more satisfactory evidence cannot be had, or is not seen, if the result of examination be, that there appears, upon the whole, any the lowest presumption on one side, and none on the other, or a greater presumption on one side, though in the lowest degree grea• The Story is told by Mr Locke, in the chapter of Probability. ter, this determines the question, even in matters of speculation...
Seite 280 - Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words; And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time, Sit side by side, full-summ'd in all their powers, Dispensing harvest, sowing the To-be, Self-reverent each and reverencing each, Distinct in individualities, But like each other ev'n as those who love.
Seite 155 - There, in their mutable, but unerring characters, mixed with the earliest as well as with the latest sighs of mortality, stand forever recorded, vows unredeemed, promises unfulfilled, perpetuating in the united movements of each particle, the testimony of man's changeful will.
Seite 264 - And hence, since the introduction of Christianity, it has been the duty, as it has been the effort, of the great and the good, to sanctify human knowledge, to bring it to the fount, and to baptize learning into Christianity ; to gather up all its productions, its earliest and its latest, its blossoms and its fruits, and lay them all upon the altar of religion and virtue.
Seite 201 - Did the Almighty," says Lessing, " holding in his right hand Truth, and in his left Search after Truth, deign to tender me the one I might prefer, — in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request Search after Truth.
Seite 101 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.