Elements of Moral Philosophy and of Christian Ethics, 2. köideJ. Duncan, 1826 |
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... justice , is seen in the daily history of mankind , and we have the most ample attestations of its reality within our own personal observation and experience . The tendency , as every one knows , of integrity , uprightness , industry ...
... justice , is seen in the daily history of mankind , and we have the most ample attestations of its reality within our own personal observation and experience . The tendency , as every one knows , of integrity , uprightness , industry ...
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... justice . The equity of God will lead him , we are assured , to proportion with perfect exactness the happiness or the misery of his creatures to the degree of virtue or of vice which prevails in their character . But no such unvarying ...
... justice . The equity of God will lead him , we are assured , to proportion with perfect exactness the happiness or the misery of his creatures to the degree of virtue or of vice which prevails in their character . But no such unvarying ...
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... justice , and goodness , should so order it , that a principal foun- dation of virtue should be groundless . There are , moreover , sufferings so extreme which the pious are occasionally called to endure , but which they are enabled to ...
... justice , and goodness , should so order it , that a principal foun- dation of virtue should be groundless . There are , moreover , sufferings so extreme which the pious are occasionally called to endure , but which they are enabled to ...
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... justice . We should find it utterly irreconcileable with infinite wisdom to suppose that the soul of man , after attain- ing , as it frequently happens , to no inconsiderable degree of cultivation , should , in the full maturity of ...
... justice . We should find it utterly irreconcileable with infinite wisdom to suppose that the soul of man , after attain- ing , as it frequently happens , to no inconsiderable degree of cultivation , should , in the full maturity of ...
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... justice , goodness , and truth : hence , he cannot do what is at variance with these perfections : he cannot lie , he cannot deceive , he cannot fail in his pro- mises . From the necessary perfection of his nature , he cannot compromise ...
... justice , goodness , and truth : hence , he cannot do what is at variance with these perfections : he cannot lie , he cannot deceive , he cannot fail in his pro- mises . From the necessary perfection of his nature , he cannot compromise ...
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