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 3
... pleasures and enjoyments , to which we are carried by a ftrong propenfity , are torn from us by this inhu- man tyrant . Let us here endeavour to reftore men to their native liberty , by examining all the common arguments against Suicide ...
... pleasures and enjoyments , to which we are carried by a ftrong propenfity , are torn from us by this inhu- man tyrant . Let us here endeavour to reftore men to their native liberty , by examining all the common arguments against Suicide ...
Sivu 33
... pleasure , that he who governs the world illuftrates his fovereignty and omnipotence . Till , then , thou art able to comprehend the whole myfterious fyftem of every poffible exiftence , till thou art certain that thy life is totally ...
... pleasure , that he who governs the world illuftrates his fovereignty and omnipotence . Till , then , thou art able to comprehend the whole myfterious fyftem of every poffible exiftence , till thou art certain that thy life is totally ...
Sivu 35
... , and laft feelings . It inhabits alike the rudest and most polished minds , and never leaves any human breaft , which is not either wholly engroffed by criminal pleasure , deadened by selfish purfüits , or perverted by false reason- 35 ...
... , and laft feelings . It inhabits alike the rudest and most polished minds , and never leaves any human breaft , which is not either wholly engroffed by criminal pleasure , deadened by selfish purfüits , or perverted by false reason- 35 ...
Sivu 36
... pleasure or pain cannot be faid to act on the mind as one part of matter does on another . The fubftance of the foul we do not know , but are certain her ideas must be immaterial . And these cannot poffibly act either by contact or ...
... pleasure or pain cannot be faid to act on the mind as one part of matter does on another . The fubftance of the foul we do not know , but are certain her ideas must be immaterial . And these cannot poffibly act either by contact or ...
Sivu 38
... pleasure or pain which any fenfible perception can give her . Sup- pofing the interpofing power a fpirit , the fame difficulty of fpirit acting upon matter ftill remains . And the volition of our own mind will as well account for the ...
... pleasure or pain which any fenfible perception can give her . Sup- pofing the interpofing power a fpirit , the fame difficulty of fpirit acting upon matter ftill remains . And the volition of our own mind will as well account for the ...
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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...