Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806 |
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... action most agreeable to the intentions of his Maker , and most conducive to the happiness of man . There is a word of dire sound and horrible import which I would fain have kept concealed if I possibly could ; but as this is not ...
... action most agreeable to the intentions of his Maker , and most conducive to the happiness of man . There is a word of dire sound and horrible import which I would fain have kept concealed if I possibly could ; but as this is not ...
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... action of any part , than by its destruction . I might do here what I have done before in speaking of the extravagance of some reasoners upon these subjects , institute a parallel between the tendency to religious scepticism , produced ...
... action of any part , than by its destruction . I might do here what I have done before in speaking of the extravagance of some reasoners upon these subjects , institute a parallel between the tendency to religious scepticism , produced ...
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... actions and notions quite removed from sense , have their rise from thence , and from obvious , sensible ideas , are transferred to more abstruse significations , and made to stand for ideas , that come not under the cognizance of our ...
... actions and notions quite removed from sense , have their rise from thence , and from obvious , sensible ideas , are transferred to more abstruse significations , and made to stand for ideas , that come not under the cognizance of our ...
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... actions as with things . If Plato had seen one person make a bow to another , he would have said that the particular bow was a mere visible species ; but there was an unchanging bow which had existed from all eternity , and which was ...
... actions as with things . If Plato had seen one person make a bow to another , he would have said that the particular bow was a mere visible species ; but there was an unchanging bow which had existed from all eternity , and which was ...
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... action is better than another . The school of Plato long continued famous , but passed through several changes ; on account of which it was distinguished into the old , the middle , and the c 4 HISTORY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY . 23.
... action is better than another . The school of Plato long continued famous , but passed through several changes ; on account of which it was distinguished into the old , the middle , and the c 4 HISTORY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY . 23.
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Page 354 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 120 - He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 118 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Page 197 - Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 222 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 338 - Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place.
Page 204 - And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise, His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he heaven and earth defied, Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful Muse, Soft pity to infuse; He sung Darius...
Page 233 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the Whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 176 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out 140 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 231 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.