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... HAPPINESS , [ HUMAN HAPPINESS - continued ] , VIRTUE , 27 34 43 52 65 ******* 25 29 BOOK II . MORAL OBLIGATION . THE QUESTION , WHY AM I OBLIGED TO KEEP MY WORD ? ' CONSIDERED , 71 WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY A MAN IS OBLIGED TO DO A THING ...
... HAPPINESS , [ HUMAN HAPPINESS - continued ] , VIRTUE , 27 34 43 52 65 ******* 25 29 BOOK II . MORAL OBLIGATION . THE QUESTION , WHY AM I OBLIGED TO KEEP MY WORD ? ' CONSIDERED , 71 WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY A MAN IS OBLIGED TO DO A THING ...
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... happiness or human perfection , he is possessed with a powerful instinct towards the securing of life , and of all the interests bound up in it . Whatever energies or faculties any creature can command , they will always be tasked to ...
... happiness or human perfection , he is possessed with a powerful instinct towards the securing of life , and of all the interests bound up in it . Whatever energies or faculties any creature can command , they will always be tasked to ...
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... happiness than would be gained if the society were dissolved ; it is an alternative of subsistence and starvation , of security and anarchy , of tranquillity and boundless dread , of happiness and ruin : hence obedience to law and the ...
... happiness than would be gained if the society were dissolved ; it is an alternative of subsistence and starvation , of security and anarchy , of tranquillity and boundless dread , of happiness and ruin : hence obedience to law and the ...
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... happiness ; it would strike at the root of the entire system of life as now constituted . We find that societies have held together with a very limited portion of integrity on the part of their members . The vice of lying is known to ...
... happiness ; it would strike at the root of the entire system of life as now constituted . We find that societies have held together with a very limited portion of integrity on the part of their members . The vice of lying is known to ...
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... happiness , but to a Pandemonium and universal shipwreck of the human species . This duty refers at once to the structure of human society , and to the establishment of authority for carrying into effect the pur- poses of society . It ...
... happiness , but to a Pandemonium and universal shipwreck of the human species . This duty refers at once to the structure of human society , and to the establishment of authority for carrying into effect the pur- poses of society . It ...
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The Moral Philosophy of Paley: With Additional Dissertations and Notes Alexander Bain No preview available - 2014 |
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Page 255 - And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Page 228 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 200 - For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Page 171 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul : neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Page 256 - See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
Page 184 - Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded ? 8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
Page 234 - Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith ; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Page 255 - Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord ; bake that which ye will bake today, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
Page 244 - Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me...
Page 244 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.