Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, BostonGould and Lincoln, 1862 - 304 páginas |
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... ; they can be strengthened in no other way ; and they are exercised right- ly only by doing just the work which God intended they should do . The moral powers , as a whole , can be so exer- cised as to improve them only as duty is accepted.
... ; they can be strengthened in no other way ; and they are exercised right- ly only by doing just the work which God intended they should do . The moral powers , as a whole , can be so exer- cised as to improve them only as duty is accepted.
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... intended he should be , to choose and do what He intended he should choose and do , and to enjoy what He intended he should enjoy . He who should fail in any of these would fail of attaining his whole end ; and if the word should at any ...
... intended he should be , to choose and do what He intended he should choose and do , and to enjoy what He intended he should enjoy . He who should fail in any of these would fail of attaining his whole end ; and if the word should at any ...
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... intended for its attainment , he would do all that he ought to do , would have the approbation of God , the approbation of his own conscience , and the sanction of reason . But if , in thus attaining the end for which he was made , man ...
... intended for its attainment , he would do all that he ought to do , would have the approbation of God , the approbation of his own conscience , and the sanction of reason . But if , in thus attaining the end for which he was made , man ...
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... intended by God , which can be but one , and in giving to each of those thus made secondary its proper place . The choice of this supreme end is the highest act of a rational being , and involves the activity of all his rational and ...
... intended by God , which can be but one , and in giving to each of those thus made secondary its proper place . The choice of this supreme end is the highest act of a rational being , and involves the activity of all his rational and ...
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... intended by him , and is an image of his own rational and holy blessedness in the activity of those powers in which we are made in his image . Of the conditions of good the above statement is the most general that can be made , and ...
... intended by him , and is an image of his own rational and holy blessedness in the activity of those powers in which we are made in his image . Of the conditions of good the above statement is the most general that can be made , and ...
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Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, Boston Mark Hopkins Visualização integral - 1865 |
Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, Boston Mark Hopkins Visualização integral - 1862 |
Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, Boston Mark Hopkins Visualização integral - 1862 |
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according action affirmation animal appetites approbation astronomy attainment beauty become benevolence blessedness body called character chemical affinity choice choose conception condition connection conscience consciousness constitution distinction dition duty element enjoyment evil faculties faith feeling force form of activity give given glory happiness harmony Hence higher highest holiness human idea inalienable indicate individual instinct intellect involved lecture liberty light lower means ment mind moral act moral affections moral character moral constitution moral nature moral philosophy moral quality moral reason moral science natural affections natural law natural right nature of things ness object obligation original ourselves parent particles perfect person philosophical skeptic pleasure principle question rational reach reference regard relation respect selfishness sense simply society sphere subordinate suppose supreme end tendency things thought tion true end truth ultimate end ural virtue virtuous volition whole wholly WILLIAMS COLLEGE wrong
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Página 121 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king...
Página 291 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 121 - The needy traveller, serene and gay, Walks the wild heath, and sings his toil away : Does envy seize thee ? crush th...
Página 121 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Página 121 - And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Página 66 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Página 200 - Honor and wealth, with all his worth and pains ! It seems a story from the world of spirits When any man obtains that which he merits, Or any merits that which he obtains.
Página 85 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Página 170 - The will, and the affections of the soul, are not two faculties; the affections are not essentially distinct from the will, nor do they differ from the mere actings of the will, and inclination of the soul, but only in the liveliness and sensibleness of exercise.
Página 203 - Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.