Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, BostonGould and Lincoln, 1865 - 304 páginas |
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... never greater . Thus situated , it is an encouragement to think of the seas of doubt through which astronomy has waded . We remember that the perplexities of its votaries were once as great as ours can be now , and hope for a similar ...
... never greater . Thus situated , it is an encouragement to think of the seas of doubt through which astronomy has waded . We remember that the perplexities of its votaries were once as great as ours can be now , and hope for a similar ...
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... never deal with his present , but only with his past self . The moment his attention should be so far called to himself as to inquire whether he was angry , his anger must cease ; and the REASONS FOR ITS SLOWER PROGRESS . 21 prophet of ...
... never deal with his present , but only with his past self . The moment his attention should be so far called to himself as to inquire whether he was angry , his anger must cease ; and the REASONS FOR ITS SLOWER PROGRESS . 21 prophet of ...
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... never have been heard of as a philosophical skeptic . The mind of Hume had in perfection the acuteness of the skeptic , which enabled him to see defects , and so to destroy , but had not the comprehensiveness needed for construction ...
... never have been heard of as a philosophical skeptic . The mind of Hume had in perfection the acuteness of the skeptic , which enabled him to see defects , and so to destroy , but had not the comprehensiveness needed for construction ...
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... never be sure that our impressions are alike . 66 ' What , " said a master to his man who had refused to do his bidding on the ground of conscience , " what do you mean by conscience ? " " It is , " said he , " something in here that ...
... never be sure that our impressions are alike . 66 ' What , " said a master to his man who had refused to do his bidding on the ground of conscience , " what do you mean by conscience ? " " It is , " said he , " something in here that ...
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... end ; and we are never satisfied with a knowledge of structure without that of the end . The perfection of a work of design must consist in its THE CONSIDERATION OF ENDS . 41 adaptation to attain its 40 LECTURES ON MORAL SCIENCE .
... end ; and we are never satisfied with a knowledge of structure without that of the end . The perfection of a work of design must consist in its THE CONSIDERATION OF ENDS . 41 adaptation to attain its 40 LECTURES ON MORAL SCIENCE .
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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.