Excerpt from A Discourse Occasioned by the Burning of the Theatre in the City of Richmond, Virginia, on the Twenty-Sixth of December, 1811: By Which Awful Calamity a Large Number of Valuable Lives Were Lost, Delivered in the Third Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, on the Eighth Day of January, 1812, at the Request of the Virginia Students Attached to the Medical Class, in the University of P One leading difference between the system Of ethics prescribed by the Stoics, and that inculca ted by Christianity is, that whilst the former aims at eradicating the passions, the latter endeavours to regulate them, and direct them into their pro per channels. The attempt Of the first is as im practicable as is undesirable; the object of the last, is, by divine aid, in a good degree attainable, and in it consists much of the dignity, perfec tion, and happiness of man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.