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Since , therefore , the interest of virtue and righteousness is the interest and cause of God and what cannot but be dear to Him , it being his own image and likeness and necessary to the happiness of his creatures , it cannot be but ...
Since , therefore , the interest of virtue and righteousness is the interest and cause of God and what cannot but be dear to Him , it being his own image and likeness and necessary to the happiness of his creatures , it cannot be but ...
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If virtue be the beauty of an intelligent being , and virtue consists in love , then it is a plain inconsistence , to suppose that virtue primarily consists in any love to its object for its beauty ; either in a love of complacence ...
If virtue be the beauty of an intelligent being , and virtue consists in love , then it is a plain inconsistence , to suppose that virtue primarily consists in any love to its object for its beauty ; either in a love of complacence ...
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Because it is absurd to say , that virtue is primarily and first of all the consequence of itself ; which makes virtue primarily prior to itself . Nor can virtue primarily consist in gratitude ; or one being's benevolence to another for ...
Because it is absurd to say , that virtue is primarily and first of all the consequence of itself ; which makes virtue primarily prior to itself . Nor can virtue primarily consist in gratitude ; or one being's benevolence to another for ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Colonial and Federalist American Writing Odyssey surveys of American writing |
| Authors | George F. Horner, Robert A. Bain |
| Editors | George F. Horner, Robert A. Bain |
| Publisher | Odyssey Press, 1966 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 946 pages |
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