A Discourse on the Studies of the UniversityJ. Smith, 1834 - 157 Seiten |
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ADAM SEDGWICK affections animal argument ascend bad passions believe capacities cause christian ciples comparative anatomy comprehend conclusion condition conscience consequences contrivance cosmogony deductive deductive reasoning deny derived discourse Dr Chalmers duty earth evil experience eyes faculties false feeble feelings fitted Geology give glory habits happiness heart honour human imagination incisor induction inductive philosophy intellectual knowledge language laws of nature light ligion logical condition mankind material action material world matter meaning mechanical philosophy ment mind moral nature moral philosophy moral rule moral sense moral system natural philosophy natural religion Natural Theology organic ourselves Paley Paley's perhaps phenomena physical political philosophy principle proofs prove questions reason religious revelation right and wrong sanction selfish sentiments shew social soul spirit strength things thought tion TRINITY COLLEGE true truth universal utility virtue wisdom word worldly δὲ καὶ
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Seite 92 - EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Seite 69 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Seite 9 - And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Seite 9 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Seite v - What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.
Seite 125 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Seite 133 - Government," resolves all civil obligation into expediency; and he proceeds to say, "that so long as the interest of the whole society requires it, that is, so long as the established government cannot be resisted or changed without public inconveniency, it is the will of God that the established government be obeyed, and no longer. . . . This principle being admitted, the justice of every particular case of resistance is reduced to a computation of the quantity of the danger and grievance on the...
Seite 98 - By this way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients ; and from motions to the forces producing them ; and, in general, • from effects to their causes ; and from particular causes to more general ones, till the argument end in the most general. This is the method of analysis. And the synthesis consists in assuming the causes discovered, and established as principles, and by them explaining the phenomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
Seite 65 - The motive for continuing in the same state or action is only the present satisfaction in it; the motive to change is always some uneasiness; nothing setting us upon the change of state, or upon any new action, but some uneasiness. This is the great motive that works on the mind to put it upon action, which for shortness' sake we will call "determining of the will" ; which I shall more at large explain.
Seite 17 - THE FOOL hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.