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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... true that men remember , as that oxygen united to carbon makes carbonic acid . I am as sure that anger , and affection , are principles of the human mind , as I am , that grubs make cockchafers ; or of any of those great truths which ...
... true that men remember , as that oxygen united to carbon makes carbonic acid . I am as sure that anger , and affection , are principles of the human mind , as I am , that grubs make cockchafers ; or of any of those great truths which ...
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... , and an investigation into the structure of the human mind . Thus much is true , that out of a certain number of men who exercise their understanding vigorously , and the same number who do not B 4 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE . 7.
... , and an investigation into the structure of the human mind . Thus much is true , that out of a certain number of men who exercise their understanding vigorously , and the same number who do not B 4 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE . 7.
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... true , it is a discovery , and a curious one . But then it affords no practical rule , for mankind are too much acquainted with practical rules to allow of such pure novelty as would constitute discovery . Of the uses of this science of ...
... true , it is a discovery , and a curious one . But then it affords no practical rule , for mankind are too much acquainted with practical rules to allow of such pure novelty as would constitute discovery . Of the uses of this science of ...
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... true felicity is not to be derived from external possessions , but from wisdom ; which consists in the knowledge and practice of virtue ; that the cultivation of virtuous manners is necessarily attended with pleasure , as well as profit ...
... true felicity is not to be derived from external possessions , but from wisdom ; which consists in the knowledge and practice of virtue ; that the cultivation of virtuous manners is necessarily attended with pleasure , as well as profit ...
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... true or false . Nevertheless , with respect to the conduct of life and the pursuit of happiness , Carneades held , that probable appearances are a sufficient guide , because it is unreasonable not to allow some degree of credit to those ...
... true or false . Nevertheless , with respect to the conduct of life and the pursuit of happiness , Carneades held , that probable appearances are a sufficient guide , because it is unreasonable not to allow some degree of credit to those ...
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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.