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... reason for the agitation among shipowners , the jealousy of the large profits the shareholders were making . He seems to have mistaken an effect for a cause . Profits are derived from business . It is the enormous development of the ...
... reason for the agitation among shipowners , the jealousy of the large profits the shareholders were making . He seems to have mistaken an effect for a cause . Profits are derived from business . It is the enormous development of the ...
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... reason . It is of as many kinds as theare are objects in the world , and inclinations in men : but I intend at this time only to speake of that to beauty , the height of which we commonly call being in love . This consists of as many ...
... reason . It is of as many kinds as theare are objects in the world , and inclinations in men : but I intend at this time only to speake of that to beauty , the height of which we commonly call being in love . This consists of as many ...
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... reason and sense , rationally and sensually both together . Besides , every agent proposeth to itself enjoyment of good , ( that is pleasure ) for all that is good is pleasant , and nothing ought to please but that which is good ; that ...
... reason and sense , rationally and sensually both together . Besides , every agent proposeth to itself enjoyment of good , ( that is pleasure ) for all that is good is pleasant , and nothing ought to please but that which is good ; that ...
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... reason of this I take to be , that love for its end proposeth the enjoyment of beauty ; beauty consists in order , harmony , and uni- formity , unto which all ill actions have an absolute contrariety , hav- ing neither rule , order ...
... reason of this I take to be , that love for its end proposeth the enjoyment of beauty ; beauty consists in order , harmony , and uni- formity , unto which all ill actions have an absolute contrariety , hav- ing neither rule , order ...
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... reason can be imagined for the difference that we see in persons , ( for the same power that made all things could have made all alike perfect ) but to make theareby a difference in our affections towards them ? Why are some made ...
... reason can be imagined for the difference that we see in persons , ( for the same power that made all things could have made all alike perfect ) but to make theareby a difference in our affections towards them ? Why are some made ...
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Page 345 - And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Page 341 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands ; neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things...
Page 772 - Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things And battles long ago; Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of today Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Page 413 - But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
Page 834 - He makes the figs our mouths to meet And throws the melons at our feet; But apples plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice.
Page 667 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Page 147 - From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro...
Page 12 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
Page 345 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 670 - For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return : a consumption is determined, overflowing with righteousness.