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It will appear, from what has been said, that there may be as many forms of good
as there are faculties or forms of activity; and these forms of good may differ not
only in degree, but in kind. Has man a sensitive nature ? There is, from the
activity ...
It will appear, from what has been said, that there may be as many forms of good
as there are faculties or forms of activity; and these forms of good may differ not
only in degree, but in kind. Has man a sensitive nature ? There is, from the
activity ...
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From the activity of our powers, voluntary and moral, we have a good higher and
different in kind, for which we need a distinctive name, but which we will here call
happiness. This will differ with the powers, intellectual, aesthetic, moral, spiritual ...
From the activity of our powers, voluntary and moral, we have a good higher and
different in kind, for which we need a distinctive name, but which we will here call
happiness. This will differ with the powers, intellectual, aesthetic, moral, spiritual ...
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It would be to bring matter, chiefly of the same kind, into solid masses by what we
call the attraction of cohesion. For this gravitation is plainly conditional, since
matter must be aggregated before it can cohere. This gives us the next higher
force.
It would be to bring matter, chiefly of the same kind, into solid masses by what we
call the attraction of cohesion. For this gravitation is plainly conditional, since
matter must be aggregated before it can cohere. This gives us the next higher
force.
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By this I mean the law which fixes the proper limit of every form of activity, and so
of every kind of good except the highest ; and so will enable us to live in the best
sense of that much-abused expression, “according to nature.” - This is a point of ...
By this I mean the law which fixes the proper limit of every form of activity, and so
of every kind of good except the highest ; and so will enable us to live in the best
sense of that much-abused expression, “according to nature.” - This is a point of ...
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That a good of any kind should begin to be sought in any other way, is not
conceivable. And so the Scriptures represent it. They speak of thirsting for God;
and the Saviour said, “If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.” Our
associations ...
That a good of any kind should begin to be sought in any other way, is not
conceivable. And so the Scriptures represent it. They speak of thirsting for God;
and the Saviour said, “If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.” Our
associations ...
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Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, Boston Mark Hopkins Visualização integral - 1862 |
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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 antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
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 98 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
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 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 66 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
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.
Página 151 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and CHANGED the glory of the uncorruptible God into AN IMAGE made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Página 61 - These pleasures, by repetition, lose their relish. 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.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | LECTURES ON MORAL SCIENCE |
| Autor | MARK HOPKINS, D.D. LL.D. |
| Publicação | 1863 |
| Original de | Universidade de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 17 Fev 2006 |
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