Infinite goodness is the source of created existence ; the proper tendency of every rational being, from the highest order of raptured seraphs, to the meanest rank of men, is to rise incessantly from lower degrees of happiness to higher. They have each... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 277by Samuel Johnson - 1806Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...ignorance or absurd perverseness. Infinite goodness is the source of created existence ; the proper tendency of every rational being, from the highest...language of Religion ? Does she lead her votaries through flowerr paths, and bid them pass an unlaborious life ? Where are the painful toils of virtue, the mortifications... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 pages
...ignorance or absurd perverseness. Infinite goodness is the source of created existence ; the proper tendency of every rational being, from the highest...raptured seraphs, to the meanest rank of men, is to rue incessantly from lower degrees of happiness to higher. They have each faculties assigned them for... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...Infinite goodness is the source of created existenee ; the proper tendeney of every rational bcing, from the highest order of raptured seraphs, to the meanest rank of man, is to rise ineessantly from lower degrces of happiness to higher. They have each faculties assigned... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...ignorance, or absurd perverseness. Infinite goodness is the source of created existence ; the proper tendency of every rational being, from the highest order of raptured seraphs, to the meanest ranks of men, is to rise incessantly from lower degrees of happiness to higher. They have each faculties... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...ignorance, or absurd pervcrseness. Infinite goodness is the source of created existence ; the proper tendency of every rational being, from the highest order of raptured seraphs to the meanest rank of man, is to rise incessantly from lower degrees of happiness to higher. They have each faculties assigned... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 332 pages
...ignorance or absurd perverseness. Infinite goodness is the source of created existence ; the proper tendency of every rational being, from the highest...meanest rank of men, is to rise incessantly from lower de grees of happiness to higher. They have each fac ulties assigned them for various orders of delights.'... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pages
...tendency of every rational heing, from the highest order of raptured seraphs to the meanest rank of man, is to rise incessantly from lower degrees of happiness to higher. They have each facultics assigned them for various orders of delights." " What," eried I, " is this the language of... | |
| 1859 - 370 pages
...ignorance, or absurd perverseness. Infinite goodness is the source of created existence. The proper tendency of every rational being, from' the highest...from lower degrees of happiness to higher. They have faculties assigned them for various orders of delights." " What !" cried I, " is this the language... | |
| William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 pages
...tendency of every rational being, from the highest order of enraptured seraphs, to the meanest ranks of men, is to rise incessantly from lower degrees...faculties assigned them for various orders of delights. Everything depends on understanding your place, and being in it : this is what is designated moral... | |
| David Thomas - 1885 - 468 pages
...ignorance, or absurd perverseness. Infinite goodness is the source of created existence : the proper tendency of every rational being, from the highest...each faculties assigned them for various orders of delight.' 'What,' cried I, 'is this the language of Religion ? Does she lead her votaries through flowery... | |
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