The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Том 2John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... duty then is , to bring to our studies , and to our inquiries after know- ledge , a mind covetous of truth ; that seeks after nothing else , and after that impartially , and embraces it , how poor , how contemptible , how unfashionable ...
... duty then is , to bring to our studies , and to our inquiries after know- ledge , a mind covetous of truth ; that seeks after nothing else , and after that impartially , and embraces it , how poor , how contemptible , how unfashionable ...
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... embraces an error for a truth , has done his duty , more than he who embraces the profession ( for the truths themselves he does not embrace ) of the truth , without having examined whether it is true or not . And 56 SELECT PASSAGES.
... embraces an error for a truth , has done his duty , more than he who embraces the profession ( for the truths themselves he does not embrace ) of the truth , without having examined whether it is true or not . And 56 SELECT PASSAGES.
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... duty , according to the best of his ability , is certainly more in the way to heaven , than he who has done nothing of it . For if it be our duty to search after truth , he certainly that has searched after it , though he has not found ...
... duty , according to the best of his ability , is certainly more in the way to heaven , than he who has done nothing of it . For if it be our duty to search after truth , he certainly that has searched after it , though he has not found ...
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... duty and conduct of individuals , while such a rule exists , is another . - Paley . DXCV . Early Education . - There is a fact in natural history , known to those acquainted with birds , that if you take the young of those almost ...
... duty and conduct of individuals , while such a rule exists , is another . - Paley . DXCV . Early Education . - There is a fact in natural history , known to those acquainted with birds , that if you take the young of those almost ...
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... Duty . — the regard to the ge neral rules of morality is what is properly called a sense of duty ; a principle of the greatest consequence in human life , and the only principle by which the bulk of mankind are capable of directing ...
... Duty . — the regard to the ge neral rules of morality is what is properly called a sense of duty ; a principle of the greatest consequence in human life , and the only principle by which the bulk of mankind are capable of directing ...
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