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Discourses on All the Principal Branches of Natural Religion and Social Virtue (Volume 1)

Discourses on All the Principal Branches of Natural Religion and Social Virtue (Volume 1)

Foster, James

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Philosophy

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ISBN10: 1154028976
ISBN13: 9781154028973
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.27 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1749 Excerpt: ... may have a great share, in fixing the state of our fellow-creatures; the temper of whose minds, the forming of their manners, their success, prosperity, and honour, may very much depend on our resolutions and course of action. And an influence, that is, at first, entirely personals and where the subject of it too is of an obscure character, may not only expand, and dilate itself to great multitudes, but settle at last, aster several intermediate events impossible to be traced, in flagrant and grand events, that are of the highest concern to whole societies. Farther, impressions made on several different minds, at one juncture, may produce effects neither intended, nor foreseen, by either of the immediate agents, but, yet, effects that are critical, and, in the utmost degree, tnomentcus and useful. And all may be owing to their being introduced at proper seasons, and uniting their influence; and if the interpofition had sailed but in one of these instances, the whole design might have been rendered abortive.--To conclude, a proper and seasonable address to the minds of princes especially, and such as have the conduct of public affairs, may decide the fate of nations, and establish liberty, or stavery. Such an influence, and at a certain period too, may promote and secure a lasting tranquility; and the want of it introduce the desolations and horrors of war; which may be succeeded by a gradual declension and, at length, by the utter destruction, of the most flourishing states and empires. So that it appears, that it may reach to the principal affairs of the present life, and extend itself to an eternal duration. And now, having mentioned states and kingdoms, it is natural for me to remark, what reason we have to believe, that the care and wse government of Go...

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