Elementary sketches of moral philosophyHarper, 1850 - 424 páginas |
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... probably include the most authori- tative and efficient guides of public taste and opinion now living , must go far to secure its early and favour- able notice . " I write this hurriedly , after finishing my legal pre- parations for to ...
... probably include the most authori- tative and efficient guides of public taste and opinion now living , must go far to secure its early and favour- able notice . " I write this hurriedly , after finishing my legal pre- parations for to ...
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... probably adopt on such an occasion , —I can assure ladies and gentlemen , there is not the smallest degree of danger . The term Metaphysics has no sort of relation to its meaning ; —and various attempts have been made to substitute a ...
... probably adopt on such an occasion , —I can assure ladies and gentlemen , there is not the smallest degree of danger . The term Metaphysics has no sort of relation to its meaning ; —and various attempts have been made to substitute a ...
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... probably find some who entertained captious and frivolous doubts against religion ; but then there is no more probability that this science should produce such men , than any other science , which compels us to a rigorous exercise of ...
... probably find some who entertained captious and frivolous doubts against religion ; but then there is no more probability that this science should produce such men , than any other science , which compels us to a rigorous exercise of ...
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... probably at last give us clear , intelligible ideas of our spiritual nature . Every suc- ceeding year is an additional confirmation to us that we are travelling in the true path of knowledge ; and as it brings in fresh tributes of ...
... probably at last give us clear , intelligible ideas of our spiritual nature . Every suc- ceeding year is an additional confirmation to us that we are travelling in the true path of knowledge ; and as it brings in fresh tributes of ...
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... probably in view to oppose the doctrine of Plato , who seems to have been of opinion that just sentiments and reasonable judgments , concerning what was fit to be done or avoided , were alone sufficient to constitute the most perfect ...
... probably in view to oppose the doctrine of Plato , who seems to have been of opinion that just sentiments and reasonable judgments , concerning what was fit to be done or avoided , were alone sufficient to constitute the most perfect ...
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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...