. Early lessons .. . nticipating the misery he may endure, years to come. THE PASSIONS. PASSIONS are strong emotions of the mind, occasioned bythe view of approaching good or evil. These emotions areplanted in man by Providence, in order to give him activity,and fit him for society. The directing of our passions toimproper objects, or suffering them to hurry us away withthem, is the great danger in human life. 48 THE PASSIONS. History is nothing but a catalogue of the miseries broughtupon mankind by an improper indulgence of their passion?.How ought it to be the constant business of rational c
. Early lessons .. . nticipating the misery he may endure, years to come. THE PASSIONS. PASSIONS are strong emotions of the mind, occasioned bythe view of approaching good or evil. These emotions areplanted in man by Providence, in order to give him activity,and fit him for society. The directing of our passions toimproper objects, or suffering them to hurry us away withthem, is the great danger in human life. 48 THE PASSIONS. History is nothing but a catalogue of the miseries broughtupon mankind by an improper indulgence of their passion?.How ought it to be the constant business of rational crea-tures to regulate and chastise these internal tyrants ! Howcarefully ought we to guard against yielding to the first im-pulses ! And how ought all our education to be directed toa proper government of them. Nothing will so effectually contribute to this as a propersense of religion. Christianity, by a sort of divine alchymv,makes those passions, which have been working for active in the cause of THE FOX AND THE GRAPES.
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