Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, BostonGould and Lincoln, 1865 - 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 - 1862 |
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 blessedness body called character chemical affinity choice choose cloth conception condition connection conscience consciousness constitution desire of power distinction duty element enjoyment evil faculties faith feeling force form of activity FRANCIS WAYLAND give happiness harmony Hence higher highest holiness idea indicate individual instinct intellect involved knowledge law of limitation lecture liberty light LOUIS AGASSIZ 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 ness object obligation original ourselves particles perfect person philosophical skeptic pleasure principle question rational reach regard relation respect selfishness sense simply SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON society sphere suppose supreme end tendency things thought tion true end truth ultimate end ural virtue virtuous volition whole wholly wrong
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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 antick 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 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 61 - It is a property of the machine, for which we know no remedy, that the organs, by which we perceive pleasure, are blunted and benumbed by being frequently exercised in the same way. There is hardly any one who has not found the difference between a gratification, when new, and when familiar ; or any pleasure which does not become indifferent as it grows habitual.
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 291 - While you labour for any thing below your proper humanity, you seek a happy life in the region of death. Well saith the moral poet:— Unless above himself he can .Erect himself, how mean a thing is man !
Página 109 - And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under the heavens; this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.