Essays on suicide and the immortality of the soul. With remarks by the editor. To which are added two letters on suicide, from Rousseau's Eloisa. [Followed by] On the immortality of the soul, and a future state, by mr. Addison1799 |
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Sivu 1
... against that peftilent diftemper are vain , or at least uncertain . Plain good sense and the practice of the world , which alone ferve most purposes of life , are here found ineffectual : His- tory as well as daily experience furnish ...
... against that peftilent diftemper are vain , or at least uncertain . Plain good sense and the practice of the world , which alone ferve most purposes of life , are here found ineffectual : His- tory as well as daily experience furnish ...
Sivu 3
... against Suicide , and fhowing that that action may be free from every imputa- tion of guilt or blame , according to the fenti- ments of all the ancient philofophers . ( 2 ) - If Suicide be criminal , it must be a tranf greffion of our ...
... against Suicide , and fhowing that that action may be free from every imputa- tion of guilt or blame , according to the fenti- ments of all the ancient philofophers . ( 2 ) - If Suicide be criminal , it must be a tranf greffion of our ...
Sivu 10
... against our Cre- ator ; and why not impious , fay I , to build hou- fes , cultivate the ground , or fail upon the ocean ? In all these actions we employ our powers of mind and body , to produce fome innovation in the courfe of nature ...
... against our Cre- ator ; and why not impious , fay I , to build hou- fes , cultivate the ground , or fail upon the ocean ? In all these actions we employ our powers of mind and body , to produce fome innovation in the courfe of nature ...
Sivu 12
... against these cala- mities , and alleviating , as much as poffible , the miseries of my future life : Why may I not cut short these miseries at once by an action which is no more prejudicial to fociety ? But fuppofe that it is no longer ...
... against these cala- mities , and alleviating , as much as poffible , the miseries of my future life : Why may I not cut short these miseries at once by an action which is no more prejudicial to fociety ? But fuppofe that it is no longer ...
Sivu 14
... against Suicide , it would now have no authority , for all the law of Mofes is abolished , except fo far as it is ef lablished by the law of nature . And we have already endea- voured to prove that Suicide is not prohibited by that law ...
... against Suicide , it would now have no authority , for all the law of Mofes is abolished , except fo far as it is ef lablished by the law of nature . And we have already endea- voured to prove that Suicide is not prohibited by that law ...
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Sivu 111 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Sivu 113 - ... is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Sivu 77 - But can we believe a thinking being, that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries?
Sivu 115 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Sivu 77 - Being, whose justice, goodness, wisdom, and veracity, are all concerned in this great point. But among these and other excellent arguments for the immortality of the soul, there is one drawn from the perpetual progress...
Sivu 80 - With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhausted sources of perfection ? We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart of man to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for him.
Sivu 77 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass in a few years ; he has all the endowments he is capable of, and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Sivu 79 - Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted? capacities that are never to be gratified?
Sivu 98 - ... as it generally happens, that virtue would make us more happy even in this life than a contrary...
Sivu 111 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...