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Example sentences for "moral nature"

  • A moral government supposes a moral nature in man, or a power of distinguishing right from wrong.

  • The Dissertation on Virtue is intended to vindicate, in man, the existence of a moral nature, apart from both Prudence and Benevolence.

  • The feelings that we sympathize with, are themselves moral feelings already; if it were not so, the reflexion of them from a thousand breasts would not give them a moral nature.

  • Bible planted in your own souls, the revelation stereotyped upon your own moral sense or moral nature.

  • Moral evil is governed as rigidly by natural laws as physical evil; because (as science demonstrates) it has its basis in man's moral nature.

  • It is a further presumption in favor of the entire freedom of the will, that man's moral nature seems to imply it.

  • He has no moral nature, no ideas of right and justice, none of accountability, and of a higher power.

  • These advantages are of two kinds--they are of a geographical nature and a moral nature.

  • In God's moral nature, as necessarily acting, there are indeed the two elements of willing and being.

  • Man, as an effect, can be referred only to a cause possessing self-consciousness and a moral nature, in other words, personality.

  • The punishment of death is one of the highest recognitions of man's moral nature possible.

  • They are dissolved in what may be called a state of moral nature, in which public authority is only one function more, hated and deceived by those who think it necessary, respected only by those who can do without it.

  • Dignity offers to us an example of subordination of sensuous nature to moral nature--an example which we are bound to imitate, but which at the same time goes beyond the measure of our sensuous faculty.

  • An analysis of conscience, therefore, will unfold man's moral nature.

  • In the one range it examines and ascertains the facts and laws of man's moral nature.

  • They are not a part of man's moral nature, writ therein, and so obligatory thereon, no more than the false rules for the conduct of matter are writ therein, and so obligatory thereon.

  • In like manner we may study the constant facts of the spiritual world, and, in special, of man's moral nature, and thereby obtain a rule to regulate our conduct.

  • Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations.

  • His last manifestation has been in the production of a being possessed of a moral nature, with powers capable of immense elevation.

  • The creations of the mechanist and of the chemist are destitute alike of feeling, reason and volition, a moral nature, conscience, and spiritual affections.

  • Such a God must be devoid of everything which we understand by personality, intelligence, wisdom, volition or a moral nature.

  • And when we shall have thus developed the consciences of men, there will henceforth be laid up for us a crown of victory, as there will then be a fuller realization that in man's moral nature is the Hope of Universal Peace.

  • Neither did he trouble himself about a natural right, which is but a trivial abstraction foisted on to the real practical existence, the right; but it is of man’s moral nature that he treats in the Republic.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    broke down; each great; house again; moral action; moral agency; moral agent; moral courage; moral duty; moral effect; moral evil; moral goodness; moral matters; moral nature; moral obligation; moral purpose; moral restraint; moral right; moral sense; moral sentiment; moral sentiment; moral teaching; moral truth; morally wrong; move rapidly; quick gesture; whole generation