1750, ISBN: 9780217403603

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: No. 76. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1750. ?- Sihit ubi passim Pu.la.ntts error certo de tramite pettit, Hie sinistorsum, hie dextrorsum obit, untts utrique Error, ted variis ittudit partibus. Ho. ' . t. While mazy error draws mankind astray, . From truth's sure path, each takes his devious way One to the right, one to the left recedes, Alike deluded, as each fancy leads. Elphihston. ! . 'i It is easy for every man, whatever be his character with others, to find reasons for esteeming himself, and therefore censure, contempt, or conviction of crimes, seldom deprive him of his own favour. Those, indeed, who can see only external facts, may look upon him with abhorrence but when he calls him self to his own tribunal, he finds every fault, if not absolutely effaced, yet so much palliated by the goodness of his intention, and the cogency of the motive, that very little guilt or turpitude remains and when he takes a survey of the whole complication of his character, he discovers so many latent excellencies, so many virtues that want but an opportunity to exert themselves in act, and so many kind wishes for universal happiness, that he looks on himself as suffering unjustly under the infamy of single failings, while the general temper of his mind is unknown or unregarded. It is natural to mean well, when only abstracted ideas of virtue are proposed to the mind, and noparticular passion turns us aside from rectitude and so willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten he that acknowledges the obligations of morality, and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue, though he has no longer any regard to her precepts, than they c...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

1750, ISBN: 9780217403603

[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This… More...

[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: No. 76. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1750. ?- Sihit ubi passim Pu.la.ntts error certo de tramite pettit, Hie sinistorsum, hie dextrorsum obit, untts utrique Error, ted variis ittudit partibus. Ho. ' . t. While mazy error draws mankind astray, . From truth's sure path, each takes his devious way One to the right, one to the left recedes, Alike deluded, as each fancy leads. Elphihston. ! . 'i It is easy for every man, whatever be his character with others, to find reasons for esteeming himself, and therefore censure, contempt, or conviction of crimes, seldom deprive him of his own favour. Those, indeed, who can see only external facts, may look upon him with abhorrence but when he calls him self to his own tribunal, he finds every fault, if not absolutely effaced, yet so much palliated by the goodness of his intention, and the cogency of the motive, that very little guilt or turpitude remains and when he takes a survey of the whole complication of his character, he discovers so many latent excellencies, so many virtues that want but an opportunity to exert themselves in act, and so many kind wishes for universal happiness, that he looks on himself as suffering unjustly under the infamy of single failings, while the general temper of his mind is unknown or unregarded. It is natural to mean well, when only abstracted ideas of virtue are proposed to the mind, and noparticular passion turns us aside from rectitude and so willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten he that acknowledges the obligations of morality, and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue, though he has no longer any regard to her precepts, than they c...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<