The Elements of Moral Science: With Questions for ExaminationReligious Tract Society, 1835 - 431 pagini |
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Pagina 45
... impulse of appetite , or passion , or self - love , be that impulse ever so strong . Do we consider it any palliation of the guilt of murder , for the criminal to declare , that his vindictive feelings impelled him much more strongly ...
... impulse of appetite , or passion , or self - love , be that impulse ever so strong . Do we consider it any palliation of the guilt of murder , for the criminal to declare , that his vindictive feelings impelled him much more strongly ...
Pagina 55
... impulse for virtue , it is as true , that he has designed him for virtue , as for anything else ; as , for instance , for seeing or for hearing . 2. If this impulse be the most authoritative in his nature , it is equally manifest , that ...
... impulse for virtue , it is as true , that he has designed him for virtue , as for anything else ; as , for instance , for seeing or for hearing . 2. If this impulse be the most authoritative in his nature , it is equally manifest , that ...
Pagina 59
... impulse must be resisted . Now , as the law of our faculties is universal , that they are strength- ened by use , and weakened by disuse , it is manifest , that , when we obey the impulse of conscience , and resist the impulse of ...
... impulse must be resisted . Now , as the law of our faculties is universal , that they are strength- ened by use , and weakened by disuse , it is manifest , that , when we obey the impulse of conscience , and resist the impulse of ...
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The Elements of Moral Science: With Questions for Examination Francis Wayland,Joseph Angus Vizualizare fragmente - 1835 |
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