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... force in proportion to the contents of the body in which it resides , so does the latter ; in individuals it is small , in societies greater , and in populous and extensive empires most powerful . As the one acts with power in ...
... force in proportion to the contents of the body in which it resides , so does the latter ; in individuals it is small , in societies greater , and in populous and extensive empires most powerful . As the one acts with power in ...
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... force of those outward circumstances which acted upon them with increasing , and , perhaps , unsuspected energy ; but surely when from beginnings in appearance so trivial , a long and momentous train of consequences is known to flow ...
... force of those outward circumstances which acted upon them with increasing , and , perhaps , unsuspected energy ; but surely when from beginnings in appearance so trivial , a long and momentous train of consequences is known to flow ...
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... force may a similar expression be applied to him who carries to his grave the neglected and unprofitable seeds of faculties , which it depended on himself to have reared to maturity , and of which the fruits bring acces- sions to human ...
... force may a similar expression be applied to him who carries to his grave the neglected and unprofitable seeds of faculties , which it depended on himself to have reared to maturity , and of which the fruits bring acces- sions to human ...
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... force religion , which ought to be taken up spontaneously , not by force . -Tertullian . LXVI The effect of Fear as a Moral Agent . - The fear of pu nishment may certainly produce sorrow and penitence . Strong apprehensions of future ...
... force religion , which ought to be taken up spontaneously , not by force . -Tertullian . LXVI The effect of Fear as a Moral Agent . - The fear of pu nishment may certainly produce sorrow and penitence . Strong apprehensions of future ...
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... force and violence of human passions , together with the infirmities and contradiction they produce in the conduct of life , will find in this knowledge , a key to the secret reasons and motives which gave rise to many of the most ...
... force and violence of human passions , together with the infirmities and contradiction they produce in the conduct of life , will find in this knowledge , a key to the secret reasons and motives which gave rise to many of the most ...
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absurd action Adam Smith appears become believe benevolence body cause cerns character circumstances civil common consequence consider creature crimes desire despotism duty effect endeavour error evil experience faculties false favour fear feel folly give habits happiness hath heart heterodoxy honour human human nature ideas ignorance imagine improvement indolence infinite division injury judgment justice knowledge labour Landor laws learned liberty live Lord Bacon Lord Bolingbroke man's mankind manner Mary Wollstonecraft means ment mind misanthropy misery moral nations nature never object observe opinions ourselves pain passions person philosophy pleasure political Polydore poor possess prejudice present principles punishment racter reason received religion render rich savage sense sions slavery society soul Southwood Smith spirit suffer temper thing thou tion true truth Uncle Toby vice virtue virtuous Voltaire wisdom wise Xenophon
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Página 279 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Página 138 - ... a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 264 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Página 101 - Thou art not thyself; For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains That issue out of dust. Happy thou art not : For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get ; FROM THE BEST AUTHORS. And what thou hast, forget'st. Thou art not certain ; For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, After the moon. If thou art rich, thou art poor ; — For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bears't thy heavy riches but a journey. And death unloads thee.
Página 437 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Página 282 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Página 263 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Página 25 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 210 - I shall not determine; but I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards, with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of this species complaining that life is short?
Página 315 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.