| Sharon Turner - 1838 - 460 pages
...afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, ia a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes, it is equally kind that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way."— Dr.... | |
| Sharon Turner - Creation - 1838 - 482 pages
...immortals — a new member added to their happy society ! WK ARK SPIRITS. That bodies should be lent as while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 246 pages
...immortals, a new member added to their happy society ? We are spirits. That bodies should be lent, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes, and... | |
| Popular literature - 1840 - 480 pages
...grieve, that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society ? " We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us, while...us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our ft llow creatures, is a kind and benevolent ect of God. When they become unfit... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 604 pages
...we grieve, that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society ? We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us, while...us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit... | |
| Sharon Turner - Creation - 1844 - 452 pages
...that a new child is born among the immortals— a new member added to their happy society ! WE ARs SPIRITS. That bodies should be lent us while they can afford u,s pleasure, asaist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...among the immortals, a new memher added to their happy society ? We are spirits. That hodies should he lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and henevolent act of God. When they hecome unfit for these purposes, and... | |
| Robert Southey - Children's stories - 1847 - 468 pages
...we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society ? We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us, while...us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit... | |
| Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 534 pages
...God and nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life. .... We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us, while...us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Statesman - 1848 - 312 pages
...we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society? We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, to assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent... | |
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