The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.