The Works of Thomas Dick, Volums 1-4H. F. Summer & Company, 1836 |
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Pàgina vii
... MORAL PRINCIPLE AND CONDUCT . Introductory remarks - knowledge and moral action inseparably connected . Ignorance one principal cause of immorality and crime . Knowledge requisite for ascertaining the true principles of moral action ...
... MORAL PRINCIPLE AND CONDUCT . Introductory remarks - knowledge and moral action inseparably connected . Ignorance one principal cause of immorality and crime . Knowledge requisite for ascertaining the true principles of moral action ...
Pàgina 103
... MORAL PRINCIPLE AND CON- DUCT . KNOWLEDGE is valuable chiefly in propor- tion as it is practical and useful . It dispels the darkness which naturally broods over the human understanding , and dissipates a thousand super- stitious ...
... MORAL PRINCIPLE AND CON- DUCT . KNOWLEDGE is valuable chiefly in propor- tion as it is practical and useful . It dispels the darkness which naturally broods over the human understanding , and dissipates a thousand super- stitious ...
Pàgina 104
... moral action ? And , who are those that are found most frequently engaged in fighting , brawling , and debauchery , in the commission of theft and other petty crimes , and in rioting in low houses of dissipation ? Are they not , for the ...
... moral action ? And , who are those that are found most frequently engaged in fighting , brawling , and debauchery , in the commission of theft and other petty crimes , and in rioting in low houses of dissipation ? Are they not , for the ...
Pàgina 105
... moral action , and their numerous bearings upon life and conduct , we cannot expect to make rapid advances in the path of virtue , or to reach the sublimer heights of moral improvement . 3. Knowledge , combined with habits of think- ing ...
... moral action , and their numerous bearings upon life and conduct , we cannot expect to make rapid advances in the path of virtue , or to reach the sublimer heights of moral improvement . 3. Knowledge , combined with habits of think- ing ...
Pàgina 106
... moral and intellectual powers ? In what relations do I stand to my fellow - creatures , and what duties do I owe them ? What is my ultimate destina- tion ? Is it merely to pass a few years in eating and drinking , in motion and rest ...
... moral and intellectual powers ? In what relations do I stand to my fellow - creatures , and what duties do I owe them ? What is my ultimate destina- tion ? Is it merely to pass a few years in eating and drinking , in motion and rest ...
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Pàgina 74 - No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.
Pàgina 55 - So shall it be at the end of the world : the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire : there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Pàgina 55 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Pàgina 83 - And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Pàgina 34 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Pàgina 164 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common ; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Pàgina 62 - Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness remain in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be peace ; And the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Pàgina 60 - I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live : I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Pàgina 118 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Pàgina 75 - Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you : that ye may be the children of your Father who is in heaven : for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.