Lectures on Moral Philosophy: Carefully Revised ... to which is Added ... An Address to the Students of the Senior Class, and Letters on Education and MarriageWilliam W. Woodward, 1822 - 298 pages |
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Page 2 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 181 - He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Page 178 - Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God,
Page 8 - It seems a point agreed upon — says a writer on natural religion — that the principles of duty and obligation must be drawn from the nature of man : that is to say, if we can discover how his Maker formed him, or for what he intended him, that certainly is what he ought to...
Page 116 - ... certainly, if in their power, resist and overthrow it. But this is only when it becomes manifestly more advantageous to unsettle the government altogether, than to submit to tyranny. This resistance to the supreme power, however, is subverting the society altogether , and is not to be attempted till the government is so corrupt, as that anarchy and the uncertainty of a new settlement is preferable to the continuance as it is.
Page 55 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time.
Page 50 - In opposition to this, some late writers have advanced, with great apparent reason, that there are certain first principles or dictates of common sense, which are either simple perceptions, or seen with intuitive evidence. These are the foundation of all reasoning, and without them, to reason is a word without a meaning.
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Page 223 - ... from about the age of eight or nine months. You will perhaps smile at this : but I do assure you from experience, that by setting about it with prudence, deliberation, and attention, it may be in a manner completed by the age of twelve or fourteen months. Do not imagine I mean to bid you use the rod at that age ; on the contrary, I mean to prevent the use of it in a great measure, and to point out a way by which...
Page 116 - If the subjects are too few, they are not sufficient to suppress internal insurrections, or repel attacks from without. V. It is frequently observed, that in every government there is a supreme irresistible power lodged somewhere in king, senate, or people. To this power is the final appeal in all questions. Beyond this we cannot go. How far does this authority extend ? We answer, as far as authority in a social state can extend ; it is not accountable to any other tribunal, and it is supposed in...