Elementary sketches of moral philosophyHarper, 1850 - 424 páginas |
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... pain ; and he saw no proof that there were such things as carts , and wagons ; and he refused to get out of their way : but Pyrrho had , fortunately for him , three or four stout slaves , who followed their master , without following ...
... pain ; and he saw no proof that there were such things as carts , and wagons ; and he refused to get out of their way : but Pyrrho had , fortunately for him , three or four stout slaves , who followed their master , without following ...
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... painful . Perhaps no habit would ever render it as easy to attend to the manner in which our mind acts , as to attend ... pain which generally accompanies profound meditation , as a check and barrier to human power . Another difficulty ...
... painful . Perhaps no habit would ever render it as easy to attend to the manner in which our mind acts , as to attend ... pain which generally accompanies profound meditation , as a check and barrier to human power . Another difficulty ...
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... to us as things eligible , and of " which the possession was preferable to the want . On " the other hand , sickness , infirmity , unwieldiness , pain " of body , as well as all the external HISTORY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY . 29.
... to us as things eligible , and of " which the possession was preferable to the want . On " the other hand , sickness , infirmity , unwieldiness , pain " of body , as well as all the external HISTORY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY . 29.
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... pains . of the body to be the sole objects of desire and aversion . That they were always the object of desire and aversion . he considered to be a matter of fact too notorious to require proof ; but he contended that they were also the ...
... pains . of the body to be the sole objects of desire and aversion . That they were always the object of desire and aversion . he considered to be a matter of fact too notorious to require proof ; but he contended that they were also the ...
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... pain is in another man by knowing what it is in myself ; but I might know this without feeling the pity . I might have been so constituted as to rejoice that another man was in agony : how can you prove that my own aversion to pain must ...
... pain is in another man by knowing what it is in myself ; but I might know this without feeling the pity . I might have been so constituted as to rejoice that another man was in agony : how can you prove that my own aversion to pain must ...
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Página 354 - Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee, for. whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 341 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Página 204 - The master saw the madness rise, His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he Heaven and Earth defied Changed his hand and check'd his pride. He chose a mournful Muse Soft pity to infuse: He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen. Fallen from his high estate. And weltering in his blood...
Página 197 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 222 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Página 118 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Página 311 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Página 30 - Thomson's Tables of Interest, at Three, Four, Four-and-a-Half, and Five per Cent., from One Pound to Ten Thousand, and from 1 to 365 Days, in a regular progression of single Days ; with Interest at all the above Rates, from One to Twelve Months, and from One to Ten Years.
Página 172 - Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever burning sulphur unconsumed.
Página 120 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd...