The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen 2F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 54
Página 419
... better to prevent crimes than to punish them " ; . . " The ma- jority of laws are nothing but privileges , or a tribute paid by all to the convenience of some few " ; . . " Salutary is the fear of the law , but fatal and fertile in ...
... better to prevent crimes than to punish them " ; . . " The ma- jority of laws are nothing but privileges , or a tribute paid by all to the convenience of some few " ; . . " Salutary is the fear of the law , but fatal and fertile in ...
Página 420
... better to prevent crimes than to punish them . This is the chief aim of every good system of legislation , which is the art of leading men to the greatest possible happiness or to the least possible misery , according to calculation of ...
... better to prevent crimes than to punish them . This is the chief aim of every good system of legislation , which is the art of leading men to the greatest possible happiness or to the least possible misery , according to calculation of ...
Página 425
... better things , after intolerable evils , but have has- tened the intermediate steps by good laws ; and deserving is that philosopher of the gratitude of mankind who had the courage , from the obscurity of his despised study , to ...
... better things , after intolerable evils , but have has- tened the intermediate steps by good laws ; and deserving is that philosopher of the gratitude of mankind who had the courage , from the obscurity of his despised study , to ...
Página 452
... better studied in a successive series of observations , although he is never able to show the relations of one to another . They have , indeed , no natural relations to him . He feels himself in a labyrinth full of uncertainty , doubt ...
... better studied in a successive series of observations , although he is never able to show the relations of one to another . They have , indeed , no natural relations to him . He feels himself in a labyrinth full of uncertainty , doubt ...
Página 453
... Christian ? There was no better Chris- tian than Montaigne in all his century . From " The French Humorists . » Roberts Brothers , Boston . AUGUSTINE BIRRELL ( 1850- ) UGUSTINE BIRRELL'S " Obiter Dicta SIR WALTER BESANT 453.
... Christian ? There was no better Chris- tian than Montaigne in all his century . From " The French Humorists . » Roberts Brothers , Boston . AUGUSTINE BIRRELL ( 1850- ) UGUSTINE BIRRELL'S " Obiter Dicta SIR WALTER BESANT 453.
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen 2 David Josiah Brewer Vista de fragmentos - 1900 |
Términos y frases comunes
actions Anatomy of Melancholy appear Aristotle beauty behold body BOETHIUS born called cause character Church common conceive creatures Danton darkness death desire devil divinity doth earth effect essays faculty faith fear feel French literature friends Gastronomy genius give hand happiness hath heaven honor human Iago idea imagination intellectual judgment knowledge labor laws less liberty light literature live look manner MARQUIS OF BECCARIA matter means mind moral nature never object observed opinion Othello ourselves pain passion person philosophy piece Plato pleasure poet poetical poetry present principles qualities reason Religio Medici religion Robespierre Saint Paul sense Shakespeare song soul spirit sublime sweet taste thee things thou thought tion true truth unto Victor Hugo virtue wherein whole Wild Huntsman Wodan woman word writing young Jessie
Pasajes populares
Página 445 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Página 806 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Página 665 - Love thou thy land, with love far- brought From out the storied Past, and used Within the Present, but transfused Thro' future time by power of thought.
Página 765 - Physician art thou ? one all eyes, Philosopher! a fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave...
Página 702 - I say unto you, refrain from these men and let them alone, for if this counsel or this work be of men it will come to naught; but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it, lest haply ye be found to fight against God.
Página 574 - For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Página 613 - There is therefore but one comfort left, that, though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death...
Página 587 - Thus there are two books from whence I collect my divinity ; besides that written one of God, another of his servant nature, that universal and public manuscript, that lies expansed unto the eyes of all : those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.
Página 578 - But to difference myself nearer, and draw into a lesser circle : there is no Church, whose every part so squares unto my conscience ; whose Articles, constitutions, and customs, seem so consonant unto reason, and as it were framed to my particular devotion, as this whereof I hold my belief, the Church of England...
Página 706 - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty, or those faculties of the mind which are affected with, or which form a judgment of the works of imagination and the elegant arts.