Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806Impr. Spottiswoodes and Shaw, 1849 - 424 páginas |
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... present enjoyments in the recollections of the past . " With all good and kind wishes , " Ever very gratefully and affectionately yours , " F. JEFFREY . " ELEMENTARY SKETCHES OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY . LONDON : SPOTTISWOODES and INTRODUCTION .
... present enjoyments in the recollections of the past . " With all good and kind wishes , " Ever very gratefully and affectionately yours , " F. JEFFREY . " ELEMENTARY SKETCHES OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY . LONDON : SPOTTISWOODES and INTRODUCTION .
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... present hour , who was ever for a single instant a convert to these subtle and ingenious follies ? Is there any one out of Bedlam who doubts of the existence of matter ? who doubts of his own personal identity ? or of his consciousness ...
... present hour , who was ever for a single instant a convert to these subtle and ingenious follies ? Is there any one out of Bedlam who doubts of the existence of matter ? who doubts of his own personal identity ? or of his consciousness ...
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... present time . Of the principles from which the obligations to virtue proceed , most sects have given an account which is at least intelligible , however each particular persuasion may vary from that which precedes it : but the specu ...
... present time . Of the principles from which the obligations to virtue proceed , most sects have given an account which is at least intelligible , however each particular persuasion may vary from that which precedes it : but the specu ...
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... present day his writings give a tinge to the language and speculations of philo- sophy and theology . Of the majestic beauty of Plato's style it is almost impossible to convey an adequate idea . He keeps the understanding up to a high ...
... present day his writings give a tinge to the language and speculations of philo- sophy and theology . Of the majestic beauty of Plato's style it is almost impossible to convey an adequate idea . He keeps the understanding up to a high ...
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... present this day at the Institution . Whoever is fond of the biographical art , as a repo- sitory of the actions and the fortunes of great men , may enjoy an agreeable specimen of its certainty in the life of Aristotle . Some writers ...
... present this day at the Institution . Whoever is fond of the biographical art , as a repo- sitory of the actions and the fortunes of great men , may enjoy an agreeable specimen of its certainty in the life of Aristotle . Some writers ...
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acquire action Adam Smith admiration agreeable animals appears Aristotle asso association attention beautiful benevolence Bishop Berkeley bodily body Carneades cause certainly child Cicero colour common conceive danger degree Descartes desire difficulty diminished discover distance doctrine Dugald Stewart effect emotion Epicurus evil excite existence fact faculties favour fear feeling give grief habit human mind humour ideas imagination imitation incongruity instance instinct knowledge labour language LECTURE Leibnitz live Lochaber Locke Lord Bacon Lucullus Malebranche mankind manner means ment Moral Philosophy natural philosophy nature never notion novelty objects observe opinions original pain particular passion perceive perfect person Plato pleasure present principles produce Pyrrho racter reason relation relation of ideas resemblance respect ridiculous sensation sense sort species sublime suppose surprise talent taste thing thought tiful tion truth understanding virtue whole witty word young
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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 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 119 - ... 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...
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 204 - 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 204 - Changed his hand and checked 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...
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 338 - 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.
Página 216 - 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...
Página 233 - 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.