The Vagabond: Or, Practical Infidelity: A NovelDavidson & Bourne, 1814 - 265 oldal |
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98. oldal - That adultery must be practised, if men would obtain all the advantages of life; that, if generally practised, it would in time cease to be scandalous; and that, if practised secretly and frequently, it would by degrees come to be thought no crime at all.
18. oldal - I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
17. oldal - If any one, upon serious and unprejudiced reflection, thinks he has a different notion of himself, I must confess I can reason no longer with him. All I can allow him is that he may be in the right as well as I, and that we are essentially different in this particular. He may, perhaps, perceive something simple and continued which he calls himself, though I am certain there is no such principle in me.
42. oldal - In all the incidents of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.
119. oldal - There is no wealth in the world except this, the labour of man *. What is misnamed wealth, is merely a power vested in certain individuals by the institutions of society, to compel others to labour for their benefit.
17. oldal - What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions or objects united together by certain relations, and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with perfect simplicity and identity.
143. oldal - The management of the temper, the first, and most important branch of education, requires the sober steady eye of reason ; a plan of conduct equally distant from tyranny and indulgence : yet these are the extremes that people of sensibility alternately fall into always shooting beyond the mark.
107. oldal - There is no law of political institution that has been made to reach this case and to transfer this property from me to him. But in the eye of simple justice, unless it can be shown that the money can be more beneficently employed, his claim is as complete as if he had my bond in his possession or had supplied me with goods to the...
100. oldal - Like the fair sex, the business of their lives is gallantry; they were taught to please, and they only live to please. Yet they do not lose their rank in the distinction of sexes, for they are still reckoned superior to women, though in what their superiority consists, beyond what I have just mentioned, it is difficult to discover.
141. oldal - It is difficult to recommend any thing to indiscriminate adoption, contrary to the established rules and prejudices of mankind; but certainly nothing can be so ridiculous upon the face of it, or so contrary to the genuine march of sentiment, as to require the overflowing of the soul to wait upon a ceremony, and that which, wherever delicacy and imagination exist, is of all things most sacredly private, to blow a trumpet before it, and to record the moment when it has arrived at its climax.