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Page 510
... beauty of the objects draws on the faculties , and draws forth their exercises : So that reason itself is under far greater advantages for its proper and free exercises , and to attain its proper end , free of darkness and delusion ...
... beauty of the objects draws on the faculties , and draws forth their exercises : So that reason itself is under far greater advantages for its proper and free exercises , and to attain its proper end , free of darkness and delusion ...
Page 525
... beauty . And benevolence or goodness in the divine Being is generally supposed , not only to be prior to the beauty of many of its objects , but to their existence ; so as to be the ground both of their existence and their beauty ...
... beauty . And benevolence or goodness in the divine Being is generally supposed , not only to be prior to the beauty of many of its objects , but to their existence ; so as to be the ground both of their existence and their beauty ...
Page 527
... beauty primarily consists . Yea , spiritual beauty consists wholly in this , and in the various qualities and exercises of mind which proceed from it , and the external actions which proceed from these inter- nal qualities and exercises ...
... beauty primarily consists . Yea , spiritual beauty consists wholly in this , and in the various qualities and exercises of mind which proceed from it , and the external actions which proceed from these inter- nal qualities and exercises ...
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