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... nature and attributes if we expect to realize tranquil and permanent happiness . Intellectual pleasures are the highest and most lasting - they have their source B in the realms of celestial purity ; but animal appetites LECTURE. ...
... nature and attributes if we expect to realize tranquil and permanent happiness . Intellectual pleasures are the highest and most lasting - they have their source B in the realms of celestial purity ; but animal appetites LECTURE. ...
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... permanent shape of the Americans and Mongolians , but as it grows older , it assumes the higher cast of the European . These laws rule the development of man , and determine the stan- dard of his mental rank , -they are immutable ; but ...
... permanent shape of the Americans and Mongolians , but as it grows older , it assumes the higher cast of the European . These laws rule the development of man , and determine the stan- dard of his mental rank , -they are immutable ; but ...
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... permanently impaired , yet they recover their wonted vigour and character , or at most it exhibits itself imperfectly through the diseased organs . The memory perhaps fails on some particular subject , or something long remembered ...
... permanently impaired , yet they recover their wonted vigour and character , or at most it exhibits itself imperfectly through the diseased organs . The memory perhaps fails on some particular subject , or something long remembered ...
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... permanently before it , so that whatever aids in forming our habits or associations , indelibly impress the understanding . Evil is , therefore , permanent in its influence and consequences . But useful knowledge gives us ascendancy ...
... permanently before it , so that whatever aids in forming our habits or associations , indelibly impress the understanding . Evil is , therefore , permanent in its influence and consequences . But useful knowledge gives us ascendancy ...
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... tion and pursuit , is after all , the source of greatest happiness . The pleasures of daily victory amply compen- sate our exertions . How many exquisite and permanent pleasures do we gather , in culling for ourselves the 32.
... tion and pursuit , is after all , the source of greatest happiness . The pleasures of daily victory amply compen- sate our exertions . How many exquisite and permanent pleasures do we gather , in culling for ourselves the 32.
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acquirements acts advance advantages Aston Bottrel attainments attention beautiful become belong Bewdley blessings brain Bridgnorth bright Burwarton character circumstances civilized claims conduct contemplation conveyed Davis delight desires develope dignity discipline diseased ditto Mr G ditto Mr W duties enjoyment error esteem evil exalted exercise exhibit experience faculties felicity furnishes the means gives gratification habits happiness Haymoor higher highest human ignorance important impulses influence intel intellectual intelligence judgment knowledge labour learning living Ludlow mankind matter mental ments Meredith mind Minton Mongolian moral and social Mytton ditto Miss nature necessity Neenton nobler numerous objects observation obtain Oldswinford opinion organs ourselves Owens passions perfect permanent philosophy and science pleasures Popular Science possess precepts principles progress purity purposes pursuit reflection regulate reward rience rude rule secure shewing society Stanton Long Stourbridge Mr E superior talent tion truth uneducated utility virtues whilst wisdom Wolverhampton Wordsley yield
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Página 45 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Página 12 - Wise men now agree, or ought to agree in this, that there is but one way to the knowledge of Nature's works ; the way of observation and experiment. By our constitution, we have a strong propensity to trace particular facts and observations to general rules, and to apply such general rules to account for other effects, or to direct us in the production of them.
Página 15 - ... divine nature, become creaturely existing, or breathed forth from God, to stand before Him in the form of a creature. When the animals of this world were to be created, it was only said, Let the earth, the air, the water, bring forth creatures after their kinds; but when man was to be brought forth, it was said, Let us make man in our own image and likeness.
Página 35 - ... wise man more than the fool?... There is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in wickedness.... One man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found.... The race is not to the swift, the battle to the strong; neither bread to the wise, nor riches to the man of understanding.... On all things is written vanity.