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... tion by the senses , and can have no such aid from others , we find a reason of no little weight for the slower progress of this science . A fourth reason is to be found in the fact , which we should not have anticipated , that the ...
... tion by the senses , and can have no such aid from others , we find a reason of no little weight for the slower progress of this science . A fourth reason is to be found in the fact , which we should not have anticipated , that the ...
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... tion is , what it is that consciousness gives . If we say that it does thus give both the subject and the object , that sim ple affirmation sweeps away in a moment the whole basis of the ideal and skeptical philosophy . It becomes as ...
... tion is , what it is that consciousness gives . If we say that it does thus give both the subject and the object , that sim ple affirmation sweeps away in a moment the whole basis of the ideal and skeptical philosophy . It becomes as ...
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... tion . A perfect mental science would require , first , the normal action of the faculties to give the phenomena , and then an accurate observation of those phenomena . A per- fect moral science would require the normal action of the ...
... tion . A perfect mental science would require , first , the normal action of the faculties to give the phenomena , and then an accurate observation of those phenomena . A per- fect moral science would require the normal action of the ...
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... tion of an end . Except in the apprehension of an end , there is nothing that a rational being can do , or that a moral being ought to do . This relation of an end to all rational action may be seen if we observe what occurs in the ...
... tion of an end . Except in the apprehension of an end , there is nothing that a rational being can do , or that a moral being ought to do . This relation of an end to all rational action may be seen if we observe what occurs in the ...
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... tion of the structure to its end , and will always express some mode in which the structure must be used to attain the end . [ What is true of rules is true also of laws . These have often been confounded , but are essentially different ...
... tion of the structure to its end , and will always express some mode in which the structure must be used to attain the end . [ What is true of rules is true also of laws . These have often been confounded , but are essentially different ...
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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.