The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Том 2John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... practice : they were tied down almost to every punctilio , as though it were necessary to salvation : they were not suffered to examine or inquire whether their teachers were in the right , and scarce knew upon what grounds they were to ...
... practice : they were tied down almost to every punctilio , as though it were necessary to salvation : they were not suffered to examine or inquire whether their teachers were in the right , and scarce knew upon what grounds they were to ...
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... Practice . — It is not difficult to con . ceive , that for many reasons , a man writes much better than he lives . For without entering into refined specu- lations , it may be shown much easier to design than to perform . A man proposes ...
... Practice . — It is not difficult to con . ceive , that for many reasons , a man writes much better than he lives . For without entering into refined specu- lations , it may be shown much easier to design than to perform . A man proposes ...
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... Practice of Philosophical Necessity . - If , as a necessa- rian , I cease to blame men for their vices in the ultimate sense of the word , I continue to do so as much as other persons ; for how necessarily soever they act , they are in ...
... Practice of Philosophical Necessity . - If , as a necessa- rian , I cease to blame men for their vices in the ultimate sense of the word , I continue to do so as much as other persons ; for how necessarily soever they act , they are in ...
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... practice whereof all who are of their communion ought to give up themselves , or else they will be scarce looked on as of that society , or at best be thought but lukewarm brothers , or in danger to apostatize . It is plain , in the ...
... practice whereof all who are of their communion ought to give up themselves , or else they will be scarce looked on as of that society , or at best be thought but lukewarm brothers , or in danger to apostatize . It is plain , in the ...
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... practice of it , but it is quite a different thing to expose its errors , to reason on its defects , and to show cause why it should be repealed , or why another ought to be substituted in its place . I have always held it an opinion ...
... practice of it , but it is quite a different thing to expose its errors , to reason on its defects , and to show cause why it should be repealed , or why another ought to be substituted in its place . I have always held it an opinion ...
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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.