The Principles of Moral Science: Vol. 1Bell & Bradfute, 1805 - 520 páginas |
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... produce , the greatest portion of felicity in the world ; and that action is the worst which produces , or has a tendency to produce , the greatest portion of misery : This opinion , that happiness is our wisest and best object of ...
... produce , the greatest portion of felicity in the world ; and that action is the worst which produces , or has a tendency to produce , the greatest portion of misery : This opinion , that happiness is our wisest and best object of ...
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... produce the general happiness of the people . But although mankind have thus agreed in speculation to consider happiness , or a succession of agreeable thoughts and sentiments , as the only valuable object of human pursuit , it is never ...
... produce the general happiness of the people . But although mankind have thus agreed in speculation to consider happiness , or a succession of agreeable thoughts and sentiments , as the only valuable object of human pursuit , it is never ...
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... produce happiness ; but they asserted , at the same time , that to act steadfastly and skilfully is the only valuable object of pursuit . To re- concile these two opinions , they were under the necessity of alleging , that a wise and ...
... produce happiness ; but they asserted , at the same time , that to act steadfastly and skilfully is the only valuable object of pursuit . To re- concile these two opinions , they were under the necessity of alleging , that a wise and ...
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... produce happi- ness , pleasure , or felicity , in themselves or others ; but that , on the contrary , the end for which they were formed , and which alone they can pursue with success , is the improvement of their whole intellectual ...
... produce happi- ness , pleasure , or felicity , in themselves or others ; but that , on the contrary , the end for which they were formed , and which alone they can pursue with success , is the improvement of their whole intellectual ...
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... produce the intellectual improvement of his own individual mind and character ; and , secondly , to produce the im provement of the minds of other rational beings , I. 1st , IN all undertakings , the first question among rational men is ...
... produce the intellectual improvement of his own individual mind and character ; and , secondly , to produce the im provement of the minds of other rational beings , I. 1st , IN all undertakings , the first question among rational men is ...
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acquire actions activity afford animals appear appetites Aristotle arrangements attained attention avarice beautiful become Birmans Book of Job called cerned character conduct consequence consider consists constitution contrived degree Deity discernment Divine Divine Providence duce duty efforts enable energy enlightened evil excellence exer exertion existence feelings felicity gradually habit happiness Hence human mind human race important individual indolence intel intellectual improvement intelligence involuntary memory jects knowledge labour lence mankind manner means memory ment necessary neral never objects ourselves pain passions perceive perfection persons pleasing pleasure polygamy possess principle produce pursue qualities quire racter rational reason recollect regard religion render riches self-command sense sentiment skilful skill society spect speculative success suffering superstition Supreme Intelligence taste tendency things thought tion train of ideas truth understanding universe valuable viduals vigour virtue virtuous voluntary power weakness whole wisdom wise words
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Página 7 - My story being done, • She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange, 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful; She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man...
Página 6 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That. I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Página 35 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Página 136 - Is aught so fair In all the dewy landscapes of the spring, In the bright eye of Hesper or the Morn, In Nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair As virtuous Friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others...
Página 35 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 6 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Página 34 - When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street, The young men saw me, and hid themselves : and the aged arose, and stood up.
Página 6 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Página 136 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Página 35 - But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?