The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Том 2John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... authority in matters of literature usually tend . They lead to the fostering of prejudice , and to the perpetuation of error . They necessarily keep a nation stationary in the march of intellect , and repress that ex- pansion of thought ...
... authority in matters of literature usually tend . They lead to the fostering of prejudice , and to the perpetuation of error . They necessarily keep a nation stationary in the march of intellect , and repress that ex- pansion of thought ...
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... authority ; it is improving their memories , instead of their understand- ings ; it is giving them credulity instead of knowledge , and it is preparing them for any kind of slavery which can be imposed on them . Whereas , if we assisted ...
... authority ; it is improving their memories , instead of their understand- ings ; it is giving them credulity instead of knowledge , and it is preparing them for any kind of slavery which can be imposed on them . Whereas , if we assisted ...
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... authority . Every man has his motive , though not the same . In this , as in other instances , the conduct is similar , but the principles which produce it extremely various . There are three distinctions of character , into which the ...
... authority . Every man has his motive , though not the same . In this , as in other instances , the conduct is similar , but the principles which produce it extremely various . There are three distinctions of character , into which the ...
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... authority is founded in opi- nion ; that general opinion , therefore , ought always to be treated with deference , and managed with delicacy and circumspection . - Paley's Moral Philosophy . : DCVIII . Reason and Instinct . Whether with ...
... authority is founded in opi- nion ; that general opinion , therefore , ought always to be treated with deference , and managed with delicacy and circumspection . - Paley's Moral Philosophy . : DCVIII . Reason and Instinct . Whether with ...
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... authority . Very few persons impose on themselves such strict laws of veracity , that every word which drops from them in conversation can be regarded as a judicial testimony . Vanity , self - interest , love of talkativeness , a ...
... authority . Very few persons impose on themselves such strict laws of veracity , that every word which drops from them in conversation can be regarded as a judicial testimony . Vanity , self - interest , love of talkativeness , a ...
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action Aphorisms appears asso believe benevolence better body cause cerning character circumstances civil common connexion Conscience conversation creature custom desire doth duty earth effect enjoy enjoyment error evil faculties false fear feel folly force formed habits happiness HARVARD COLLEGE hath heart heresy heterodoxy honour human mind ideas ignorance individual indolence influence inquiry judgment knowledge labour lence less liberty live man's mankind manner marriage Masham means ment misanthropy misery moral Moral Philosophy motives nation natural philosophy nature neral never nexion nions observe opinions ourselves pain passions persons philosopher physical pleasure poor prejudice present pride principle produce punishment racter rat-catcher reason received religion rich savage seldom sense sion slavery society Southwood Smith spirit strength suffer thing tion true truth Uncle Toby vice virtue Voltaire wisdom wise words
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Страница 25 - 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.
Страница 220 - 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.
Страница 43 - 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. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
Страница 46 - 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?
Страница 25 - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness.
Страница 25 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
Страница 74 - I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared, nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory.
Страница 27 - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, 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...
Страница 43 - ... shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire ; but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while.
Страница 183 - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.