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... infancy favourable to the cultivation of the benevolent affec- tions . Tendency of every passion to produce passions of the class to which it belongs . Malevolent and dissocial passions inspired by the gratification of self - will ...
... infancy favourable to the cultivation of the benevolent affec- tions . Tendency of every passion to produce passions of the class to which it belongs . Malevolent and dissocial passions inspired by the gratification of self - will ...
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... infancy . A fact which might easily be ascertained by observation on the characters around us ; but as objects pressing so closely upon the sight , as to have their parts necessarily viewed in succes- sion , have a less striking effect ...
... infancy . A fact which might easily be ascertained by observation on the characters around us ; but as objects pressing so closely upon the sight , as to have their parts necessarily viewed in succes- sion , have a less striking effect ...
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... infant mind , less interesting to a moth- er's heart , than listening to the nonsense of the day , or suffering the alternation of hope and fear at the card - table ? It is not probable that any who would answer in the affirmative ...
... infant mind , less interesting to a moth- er's heart , than listening to the nonsense of the day , or suffering the alternation of hope and fear at the card - table ? It is not probable that any who would answer in the affirmative ...
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... infancy ; as ex- perience may convince us , that the impressions re- ceived in that early period are slight and evanes- cent ; that the pleasures and pains of childhood are not the pleasures and pains of our riper years , and that this ...
... infancy ; as ex- perience may convince us , that the impressions re- ceived in that early period are slight and evanes- cent ; that the pleasures and pains of childhood are not the pleasures and pains of our riper years , and that this ...
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... infancy ; and while I did so , I would submit my own prejudices , my own opinions , to the same test . " There are few indi- viduals ( says Stewart ) whose education has been conducted in every respect with attention and judg- ment ...
... infancy ; and while I did so , I would submit my own prejudices , my own opinions , to the same test . " There are few indi- viduals ( says Stewart ) whose education has been conducted in every respect with attention and judg- ment ...
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Página 127 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Página 170 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind. And the great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this, that a man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way.
Página 237 - To a woman, whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Página 237 - I have observed among all nations, that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. They do not hesitate, like man, to perform a hospitable or generous action; not haughty, nor arrogant, nor supercilious, but full of courtesy and fond of society...
Página 237 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarsest morsel, with a double relish.
Página 27 - ... following : First, to cultivate all the various principles of our nature, both speculative and active, in such a manner as to bring them to the greatest perfection of which they are susceptible ; and, secondly, by watching over the impressions and associations which the mind receives in early life, to secure it against the influence of prevailing errors, and, as far as possible, to engage its prepossessions on the side of truth.
Página 234 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears...
Página 68 - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God ; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone ; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord : in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Página 191 - But's happier than me : For I have known The luscious sweets of plenty; every night Have slept with soft content about my head, And never wak'd but to a joyful morning ; Yet now must fall like a full ear of corn, Whose blossom 'scap'd, yet's wither'd in the ripening.
Página 189 - But the subjects of the Byzantine empire, who assume and dishonour the names both of Greeks and Romans, present a dead uniformity of abject vices, which are neither softened by the weakness of humanity nor animated by the vigour of memorable crimes. The...