 | William Ellery Channing - Slavery - 1836 - 212 pages
...doomed to great, perhaps fatal error. The right is the supreme good, and includes all other goods. In seeking and adhering to it, we secure our true...Impartial Goodness, then to hope for happiness from wrong-doing is as insane as to seek health and prosperity by rebelling against the laws of nature,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Antislavery movements - 1841 - 424 pages
...doomed to great, perhaps fatal error. The right is the supreme good, and includes all other goods. In seeking and adhering to it, we secure our true...Impartial Goodness, then to hope for happiness from wrong-doing is as insane as to seek health and prosperity by rebelling against the laws of nature,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1841 - 424 pages
...doomed to great, perhaps fatal error. The right is the supreme good, and includes all other goods. In seeking and adhering to it, we secure our true...Impartial Goodness, then to hope for happiness from wrong-doing is as insane as to seek health and prosperity by rebelling against the laws of nature,... | |
 | Evangelicalism - 1842 - 434 pages
...doomed to great, perhaps fatal error. " The right is the supreme good, and includes all other goods. In seeking and adhering to it, we secure our true...impartial goodness, then to hope for happiness from wrong-doing, is as insane as to si'ek health and prosperity by rebelling against the laws of nature,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1845 - 424 pages
...doomed to great, perhaps fatal error. The right is the supreme good, and includes all other goods. In seeking and adhering to it, we secure our true...Impartial Goodness, then to hope for happiness from wrong-doing is as insane as to seek health and prosperity by rebelling against the laws of nature,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1847 - 428 pages
...doomed to great, perhaps fatal error. The right is the supreme good, and includes all other goods. In seeking and adhering to it, we secure our true...prosperity, not founded on it, is built on sand. If human afiairs are controlled, as we believe, by Almighty Rectitude and Impartial Goodness, then to hope for... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 424 pages
...doomed to great, perhaps fatal error. The right is the supreme good, and includes all other goods. In seeking and adhering to it, we secure our true...Impartial Goodness, then to hope for happiness from wrong-doing is as insane as to seek health and prosperity by rebelling against the laws of nature,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1849 - 428 pages
...doomed to great, perhaps fatal error. The right is the supreme good, and includes all other goods. In seeking and adhering to it, we secure our true...Impartial Goodness, then to hope for happiness from wrong-doing is as insane as to seek health and prosperity by rebelling against the laws of nature,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1854 - 844 pages
...doomed to great, perhaps fatal error. The right is the supreme good, and includes all other goods. In seeking and adhering to it, we secure our true...affairs are controlled, as we believe, by Almighty Rectitnde and Impartial Goodness, then to hope for happiness from wrong-doing • is as insane as to... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1855 - 360 pages
...obeyed. Never transgress its limits. 2. The right is the supreme good, and includes all other goods. In seeking and adhering to it, we secure our true and only happiness. REMARKS. a. For the mode of pointing short sentences which are slightly connected with each other,... | |
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... inquiries into human affairs is doomed to great, perhaps fatal error. The right is the supreme good, and includes all other goods. In seeking and adhering to it, we secure our true and only happiness. All prosperity, not founded on it, is built on... 
