Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes ...J.B. Lippincott, 1905 - 764 oldal |
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... moral prudence ; justified not only by the suffrage of reason , which de- clares that none of the gifts of Heaven are to lie useless , but by the voice likewise of experi- ence , which will soon inform us that , if we make the praise or ...
... moral prudence ; justified not only by the suffrage of reason , which de- clares that none of the gifts of Heaven are to lie useless , but by the voice likewise of experi- ence , which will soon inform us that , if we make the praise or ...
16. oldal
... moral purity , which we find even in his merriment . Severity , gradually harden- ing and darkening into misanthropy , character- izes the works of Swift . The nature of Voltaire was , indeed , not inhuman ; but he venerated nothing ...
... moral purity , which we find even in his merriment . Severity , gradually harden- ing and darkening into misanthropy , character- izes the works of Swift . The nature of Voltaire was , indeed , not inhuman ; but he venerated nothing ...
23. oldal
... moral part , perhaps , youth will have the pre- eminence , as age hath for the politic . LORD BACON : men , Essay XLIII .: Of Youth and Age . Cicero was at dinner , when an ancient lady said she was but forty : one that sat by rounded ...
... moral part , perhaps , youth will have the pre- eminence , as age hath for the politic . LORD BACON : men , Essay XLIII .: Of Youth and Age . Cicero was at dinner , when an ancient lady said she was but forty : one that sat by rounded ...
36. oldal
... moral sciences they made scarcely any advance . During the long period which elapsed between the fifth century before the Christian era and the fifteenth after it , little perceptible progress was that the principles of government ...
... moral sciences they made scarcely any advance . During the long period which elapsed between the fifth century before the Christian era and the fifteenth after it , little perceptible progress was that the principles of government ...
40. oldal
... moral inertia , the absence of all activity or energy . According to the Stoics , apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason . FLEMING . In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be ...
... moral inertia , the absence of all activity or energy . According to the Stoics , apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason . FLEMING . In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be ...
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