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 6
... equally with the meaneft creature ; an inundation sweeps away every thing without diftinction that comes within the reach of its fury . Since , there- fore , the lives of men are for ever dependent on the general laws of matter and ...
... equally with the meaneft creature ; an inundation sweeps away every thing without diftinction that comes within the reach of its fury . Since , there- fore , the lives of men are for ever dependent on the general laws of matter and ...
Sivu 7
... equally criminal to act for the preservation of life as for its deftruction . If I turn afide a stone which is falling upon my head , I disturb the courfe of nature , and I invade the peculiar province of the Almighty , by lengthening ...
... equally criminal to act for the preservation of life as for its deftruction . If I turn afide a stone which is falling upon my head , I disturb the courfe of nature , and I invade the peculiar province of the Almighty , by lengthening ...
Sivu 9
... equally from the hands of the Deity as if it had proceeded from a lion , a precipice , or a fever . The fubmiflion which you require to providence , in every calamity that befals me , excludes not human fkill and induftry , if poffible ...
... equally from the hands of the Deity as if it had proceeded from a lion , a precipice , or a fever . The fubmiflion which you require to providence , in every calamity that befals me , excludes not human fkill and induftry , if poffible ...
Sivu 10
... equally innocent , or equally criminal , But you are placed by Providence , like a fentinel , in a particular fla- tion , and when you defert it without being recalled , you are equally guilty of rebellion against your Almighty ...
... equally innocent , or equally criminal , But you are placed by Providence , like a fentinel , in a particular fla- tion , and when you defert it without being recalled , you are equally guilty of rebellion against your Almighty ...
Sivu 11
... equally ufeful in the grand fabric , as when they compofed this individual creature . The difference to the whole will be no greater than betwixt my being in a chamber and in the open air . The one change is of more importance to me ...
... equally ufeful in the grand fabric , as when they compofed this individual creature . The difference to the whole will be no greater than betwixt my being in a chamber and in the open air . The one change is of more importance to me ...
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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...