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. 1755 Excerpt: ...5 E C T They are precisely of the Nature of Re-ward and Puzzisbment 3 and therefore can have no Part in the Question now before us; 'which relates solely to " that Happiness or Misery' " arifing from the inward State of the " Blind; AflecFii0ns, 'and moral Serfl-, on the " P Commifiion of Vice, l or the Pradftice of " ...
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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. 1755 Excerpt: ...5 E C T They are precisely of the Nature of Re-ward and Puzzisbment 3 and therefore can have no Part in the Question now before us; 'which relates solely to " that Happiness or Misery' " arifing from the inward State of the " Blind; AflecFii0ns, 'and moral Serfl-, on the " P Commifiion of Vice, l or the Pradftice of " Virtue." And this hath been already confidered at large, V ' Hownvrzk, that nothing may be omitted which can even remotely affect the Truth 5 Subject, 't-is much eafier to prove; " that '-' Vice is the Parent of external Misery', than " that Virtue is the Parent of external Hap'T piness." 'Tis plain, that no Man can be vicious in any considerable Degree, but he must suffer either-in his Healtb, his Fame, or Fortune. Now the Generality of Moralists, after proving or-illustrating this, have taken' it for granted, as a certain Consequence, that the external Goods of Life are, 'by the Law of Contr-aries, in a fiymi-lar Manner annexed to the Practice of Virtue. But in Reality tfhe Proof can reach no further than to shew the happy Consequences of Imzocerzce, which 4 0 3 is E 5 s AYis a very different Thing from Virtue? for-I-I-Innocence is only the adsiaining from E-vil; " a Regard to the external Consequences of 3 E C T 'Principle of Aetion as groundless and ima ginary: But that among these, the Tcyte in Morals, if properly cultivated, must needs be sufl-icient for all the Purposes of Virtue V." i I IN reply to this, which is perhaps the weakest Pretence of all that the noble Writer hath alledged, we need only observe, that those who are born to Honours, Power-, and Fortune, come into the World with the lo-well Ranks of Mankind So that if they really enjoy better Opportunities of being completely ...
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