The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Том 2John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... moral constitution of man . They are of the same kind in the fierce African , in the sluggish Greenlander , and in the more enlightened and polished inhabitants of the temperate zone . They are to be found in our affections and passions ...
... moral constitution of man . They are of the same kind in the fierce African , in the sluggish Greenlander , and in the more enlightened and polished inhabitants of the temperate zone . They are to be found in our affections and passions ...
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... moral rectitude , even when it is right . Conscience is only opinion , and certainty of opinion is no proof of its being right . As our reason is warped according to the principles we have imbibed , to the habits we have been accustomed ...
... moral rectitude , even when it is right . Conscience is only opinion , and certainty of opinion is no proof of its being right . As our reason is warped according to the principles we have imbibed , to the habits we have been accustomed ...
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... moral idiosyncracies.- Parr's Character of Fox . DXIV . Progress of Society . — Whoever has attentively medi- tated on the progress of the human race , cannot fail to discern that there is now a spirit of inquiry amongst men , which ...
... moral idiosyncracies.- Parr's Character of Fox . DXIV . Progress of Society . — Whoever has attentively medi- tated on the progress of the human race , cannot fail to discern that there is now a spirit of inquiry amongst men , which ...
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... Moral Philosophy . DXXVI . Benefits and Injuries . - There needs no greater subtlety to prove that both benefits and injuries receive their value from the intention , when even brutes themselves are able to decide this question . Tread ...
... Moral Philosophy . DXXVI . Benefits and Injuries . - There needs no greater subtlety to prove that both benefits and injuries receive their value from the intention , when even brutes themselves are able to decide this question . Tread ...
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... moral doubt that arises , looks for more than he will meet with . And to what a magnitude such a detail of particular precepts would have enlarged the sacred volume may be partly understood from the following consideration : -The laws ...
... moral doubt that arises , looks for more than he will meet with . And to what a magnitude such a detail of particular precepts would have enlarged the sacred volume may be partly understood from the following consideration : -The laws ...
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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.