Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, BostonGould and Lincoln, 1862 - 304 páginas |
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... original thought ; but that those lectures should have been delivered for more than twenty - five years without essential alteration is what requires explanation , if not apology . During The explanation is , chiefly , from the pressure ...
... original thought ; but that those lectures should have been delivered for more than twenty - five years without essential alteration is what requires explanation , if not apology . During The explanation is , chiefly , from the pressure ...
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... original nature there is within them a guiding light by which the learned and unlearned alike may walk . But in either case , when science began its work , and asked for causes , and reasons , and classifica- tions , there were ...
... original nature there is within them a guiding light by which the learned and unlearned alike may walk . But in either case , when science began its work , and asked for causes , and reasons , and classifica- tions , there were ...
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... original and native to the mind , it cannot be distinguished from prejudices and habits . Some think it simply the power of moral discrimination ; others add an emotive element to reward and punish , and others still an impulsive power ...
... original and native to the mind , it cannot be distinguished from prejudices and habits . Some think it simply the power of moral discrimination ; others add an emotive element to reward and punish , and others still an impulsive power ...
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... original end , or , it may be , something better , though of that moral philosophy could know nothing . - Shall we , then , accept the above definitions ? Let us do so , so far , at least , as to make further explorations in this ...
... original end , or , it may be , something better , though of that moral philosophy could know nothing . - Shall we , then , accept the above definitions ? Let us do so , so far , at least , as to make further explorations in this ...
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... original law . But if moral disorder has come in and become habitual , if great interests are at stake in circumstances of temptation and struggle , it may be wise , and even a duty , to ignore and reject many pleasures that might ...
... original law . But if moral disorder has come in and become habitual , if great interests are at stake in circumstances of temptation and struggle , it may be wise , and even a duty , to ignore and reject many pleasures that might ...
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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.