Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806Harper & Brothers, 1850 - 391 páginas |
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... manner he can . I must beg my audience , however , to sit quiet , till they hear what can be said in defense of Metaphysics , and in the mean time to make use of the language which the manager would probably adopt on such an occasion ...
... manner he can . I must beg my audience , however , to sit quiet , till they hear what can be said in defense of Metaphysics , and in the mean time to make use of the language which the manager would probably adopt on such an occasion ...
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... manner ; but surely it is a sad way to cure the excesses of the human mind , by benumbing it ; and a very narrow view of the resources of art , to suppose there is no other remedy for the irregular action of any part , than by its ...
... manner ; but surely it is a sad way to cure the excesses of the human mind , by benumbing it ; and a very narrow view of the resources of art , to suppose there is no other remedy for the irregular action of any part , than by its ...
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... manner concerning the nature of mind , have , in their most useful and practical disquisi- tions , been prevented , by their own good sense , from blending any theory with respect to the causes of the intellectual phenomena with the ...
... manner concerning the nature of mind , have , in their most useful and practical disquisi- tions , been prevented , by their own good sense , from blending any theory with respect to the causes of the intellectual phenomena with the ...
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... manner in which our mind acts , as to attend to those notions we have gathered from the eye , and the ear , and the touch . Providence , intending man for a life of greater activity than contemplation , has placed this impediment to the ...
... manner in which our mind acts , as to attend to those notions we have gathered from the eye , and the ear , and the touch . Providence , intending man for a life of greater activity than contemplation , has placed this impediment to the ...
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... manners is necessarily attended with pleasure as well as profit ; that the honest man alone , is happy ; -and that it is absurd to attempt to separate things which are in their nature so united as virtue and interest . " " Socrates was ...
... manners is necessarily attended with pleasure as well as profit ; that the honest man alone , is happy ; -and that it is absurd to attempt to separate things which are in their nature so united as virtue and interest . " " Socrates was ...
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Página 188 - 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 317 - 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 209 - 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 : It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Página 315 - Upon himself ; horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him hell He brings, and round about him, nor from hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly, By change of place ; now conscience wakes despair.
Página 194 - And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise, His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he heaven and earth defied, Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful Muse, Soft pity to infuse; He sung Darius...
Página 117 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb 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.
Página 219 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the Whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 117 - Wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors: a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
Página 113 - ... retorting an objection sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...
Página 205 - Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate* pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion to behold The fellows of his crime, the followers rather (Far other once beheld in bliss), condemned For ever now to have their lot in pain...