The Virtues: The Stanton Lectures 1973-74

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CUP Archive, 21 avr. 1977 - 173 pages
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Discusses four cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and courage, and the three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity. Claims moral precepts are absolute, utilitarianism is to be shunned, and sex apart from marriage is poison.
 

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again should not cause us any real worry
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obliged he is released 1 if the promisee releases
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for unreliability of these records would
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having stings even though the use of this
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to how a solitary person could either exist or love
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we shall
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duty to be extremely alert but there is no duty
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only by making right choices then they need
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Page 109 - What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
Page 158 - I will leap off the ladder even blindfold into eternity, — sink or swim, — come heaven, come hell ; Lord Jesus, if thou wilt catch me, do ; — if not, I will venture for thy name...
Page 129 - Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, Thou: Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.
Page 140 - Natural and supernatural with the self-same ring are wed. As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said.
Page 126 - ... as if master and servant were not introduced by consent of men but by difference of wit, which is not only against reason but also against experience.
Page 109 - Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
Page 158 - Wherefore, thought I, the point being thus, I am for going on, and venturing my eternal state with Christ, whether I have comfort here or no. If God doth not come in, thought I, ' I will leap off the ladder, even blindfold, into eternity, sink or swim, come heaven come hell ! Lord Jesus, if thou wilt catch me, do ; if not, I will venture for thy name...
Page 114 - Who can ascend the hill of the | LORD /and who can stand in his / holy place?" 4 +"Those who have clean hands and a pure + heart, who have not pledged themselves to / falsehood, nor sworn by what is a \ fraud. 5 They shall receive a blessing from the | LORD /and a just reward from the God of their / salvation.
Page 158 - I then serve for a praise of his justice. But in good faith, Meg, I trust that his tender pity shall keep my poor soul safe, and make me commend his mercy. And, therefore, mine own good daughter, never trouble thy mind for any thing that shall happen to me in this world.
Page 70 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.

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