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Sivu 4
... agent ? Is it subjective or objective ; an internal , or an external motive ? Before we can answer this inquiry understandingly , we must know what is intended by the terms voluntary action , choice , & c . Are they used to denote ...
... agent ? Is it subjective or objective ; an internal , or an external motive ? Before we can answer this inquiry understandingly , we must know what is intended by the terms voluntary action , choice , & c . Are they used to denote ...
Sivu 5
... agent . That which we dislike may also prompt us to action . If it be a present evil , we desire and endeavor to remove it . If it be something future which we dread , we make exertions to avoid it . In this case , also , the evil ...
... agent . That which we dislike may also prompt us to action . If it be a present evil , we desire and endeavor to remove it . If it be something future which we dread , we make exertions to avoid it . In this case , also , the evil ...
Sivu 6
... agent seeks or aims at , in what he does . An ultimate end is that which is sought for its own sake , and not for the sake of some farther end . It is care- fully distinguished , by President Edwards , * not only from subordinate ends ...
... agent seeks or aims at , in what he does . An ultimate end is that which is sought for its own sake , and not for the sake of some farther end . It is care- fully distinguished , by President Edwards , * not only from subordinate ends ...
Sivu 7
... agent's own happiness . But if the welfare of others may be an object sought for its own sake , it may have the nature both of an ultimate , and also of a subordinate end . Delicious fruit is desired , because it is delicious ; for the ...
... agent's own happiness . But if the welfare of others may be an object sought for its own sake , it may have the nature both of an ultimate , and also of a subordinate end . Delicious fruit is desired , because it is delicious ; for the ...
Sivu 22
... agent can have but one ultimate end of any of his pur- suits . Our liability to confound benevolence with selfishness , and to fail of keeping in our view the radical distinction between them , renders great caution necessary in the use ...
... agent can have but one ultimate end of any of his pur- suits . Our liability to confound benevolence with selfishness , and to fail of keeping in our view the radical distinction between them , renders great caution necessary in the use ...
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Sivu 144 - And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
Sivu 410 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Sivu 179 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Sivu 190 - Lest Satan should get an advantage of us : for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Sivu 476 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished; but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Sivu 389 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious.
Sivu 74 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Sivu 157 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Sivu 362 - Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
Sivu 21 - according to the deeds done in the body," when " they that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever...