Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806Harper & Brothers, 1850 - 391 oldal |
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... whole , a stronger impression of the force and vivacity of his intellect , as well as a truer and more engaging view of his character , than most of what the world has yet seen of his writings . The book seems to me to be full of good ...
... whole , a stronger impression of the force and vivacity of his intellect , as well as a truer and more engaging view of his character , than most of what the world has yet seen of his writings . The book seems to me to be full of good ...
vii. oldal
... whole . An earnest entreaty was made that those not yet torn up might be spared , and it was granted . * These subjects were introduced in the Lectures on Memory , on Imag- ination , and on Association . These Lectures then ( the first ...
... whole . An earnest entreaty was made that those not yet torn up might be spared , and it was granted . * These subjects were introduced in the Lectures on Memory , on Imag- ination , and on Association . These Lectures then ( the first ...
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... whole , a very remarkable approach to the inductive plan of studying human nature . We may trace this in the writings even of those who profess to consider thought merely as an agitation of the brain . In the writings of Helvetius and ...
... whole , a very remarkable approach to the inductive plan of studying human nature . We may trace this in the writings even of those who profess to consider thought merely as an agitation of the brain . In the writings of Helvetius and ...
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... whole world falls under the dominion of man ; evincing that in his mind the Creator has reared up the noblest emblem of his wisdom , and his power . The philosophy of the human mind is no school for infi- delity , but it excites the ...
... whole world falls under the dominion of man ; evincing that in his mind the Creator has reared up the noblest emblem of his wisdom , and his power . The philosophy of the human mind is no school for infi- delity , but it excites the ...
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... whole train first presents itself to our mind , and after we have made every effort to dwell upon , and retain this , the others follow of their own ac- cord , without any power of ours , exactly in the order in which they had been ...
... whole train first presents itself to our mind , and after we have made every effort to dwell upon , and retain this , the others follow of their own ac- cord , without any power of ours , exactly in the order in which they had been ...
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action Adam Smith admiration agreeable animals appears Aristotle asso association attention beautiful benevolence Bishop Berkeley bodily body Carneades cause certainly child Cicero color common conceive connected consider danger degree Descartes desire diminished discover doctrine Dugald Stewart effect emotion Epicurus evil excite existence fact faculties fear feeling give grief habit happiness human mind humor ideas imagination imitation immediately incongruity instance instinct knowledge language learned lecture live Lochaber Locke Lord Bacon Malebranche mankind manner means ment Moral Philosophy MUSLIN Natural Philosophy nature never notion novelty objects observe opinions original pain particular passed passion perceive perfect person Plato pleasure present principles produce Pyrrho reason relation relation of ideas resemblance respect ridiculous sensation sense sort species sublime superior suppose surprise talents taste thing thought tion truth understanding virtue whole witty word York Tribune young
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188. oldal - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
116. oldal - ... 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...
164. oldal - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
117. oldal - Wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors: a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
194. oldal - 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...
164. oldal - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe...
315. oldal - 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.
205. oldal - Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate* pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion...
219. oldal - 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.
209. oldal - 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: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?