The Friend: A Series of Essays, in Three Volumes, to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed, Band 3R. Fenner, 1818 - 375 Seiten |
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... reason , even in the erroneous form in which the young adopt it . For there is a perpetual acquisition of knowledge and art , -an unceasing progress in many of the modes of exertion of the human mind , a perpetual unfolding of virtues ...
... reason , even in the erroneous form in which the young adopt it . For there is a perpetual acquisition of knowledge and art , -an unceasing progress in many of the modes of exertion of the human mind , a perpetual unfolding of virtues ...
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... itself in its own place against the weight of general opinion ; -and there may be too indiscriminate , too undisci- plined a sympathy with others , which by the mere infection of feeling will subdue the reason . -There 18.
... itself in its own place against the weight of general opinion ; -and there may be too indiscriminate , too undisci- plined a sympathy with others , which by the mere infection of feeling will subdue the reason . -There 18.
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... reason . -There must be a weakness in dejection to him who thinks , with sadness , if his faith be pure , how gross is the error of the multitude , and that multitude how vast : -a reluctance to embrace a creed that excludes so many ...
... reason . -There must be a weakness in dejection to him who thinks , with sadness , if his faith be pure , how gross is the error of the multitude , and that multitude how vast : -a reluctance to embrace a creed that excludes so many ...
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... reason and just feeling united , and relying on its strength , has attached itself to Truth , how much is there in the course and accidents of life that is for ever silently at work for its degradation . There are pleasures deemed ...
... reason and just feeling united , and relying on its strength , has attached itself to Truth , how much is there in the course and accidents of life that is for ever silently at work for its degradation . There are pleasures deemed ...
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... reason and eloquence of one man , this complete control over the minds of others , it is necessary , I think , that he should be born in their own times . For thus what- ever false opinion of pre - eminence is attached to the Age ...
... reason and eloquence of one man , this complete control over the minds of others , it is necessary , I think , that he should be born in their own times . For thus what- ever false opinion of pre - eminence is attached to the Age ...
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