Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, BostonGould and Lincoln, 1865 - 304 páginas |
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... light which is from with- out , the other of that which is within . Of the one , the objects and phenomena are not only without us , but are separated from us by inconceivable distances ; of the other , the phenomena are not only within ...
... light which is from with- out , the other of that which is within . Of the one , the objects and phenomena are not only without us , but are separated from us by inconceivable distances ; of the other , the phenomena are not only within ...
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... 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 conjectures and diversities of opinion without end . Of ...
... 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 conjectures and diversities of opinion without end . Of ...
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... either for the cognitions , or the faculty in which they origi- nated . The faculty was called " intuition , " and the " dry light of the mind , " and common sense , " and " the - 66 reason , " and by Hamilton it is called " 3.
... either for the cognitions , or the faculty in which they origi- nated . The faculty was called " intuition , " and the " dry light of the mind , " and common sense , " and " the - 66 reason , " and by Hamilton it is called " 3.
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... light or the rapidity of its motion it cannot affect . God gives light and the eye , and we see ; but we see no better after knowing the structure of the eye and the science of optics than before . Here the result is first , as perfect ...
... light or the rapidity of its motion it cannot affect . God gives light and the eye , and we see ; but we see no better after knowing the structure of the eye and the science of optics than before . Here the result is first , as perfect ...
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... light and a joy forever . I have only to add , that our opinions of the laws and processes of our being may be so held as to affect those processes scarcely at all , and hence that the practical results of man's opinions on these points ...
... light and a joy forever . I have only to add , that our opinions of the laws and processes of our being may be so held as to affect those processes scarcely at all , and hence that the practical results of man's opinions on these points ...
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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.