The Principles of Moral Science: Vol. 1Bell & Bradfute, 1805 - 520 oldal |
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... important object of human pursuit , or as the business of man in this world ? And , secondly By what means is this object to be attained ? or how is our great business in life to be best fulfilled ? It is evident that the first of these ...
... important object of human pursuit , or as the business of man in this world ? And , secondly By what means is this object to be attained ? or how is our great business in life to be best fulfilled ? It is evident that the first of these ...
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... importance , however , that our actions should be founded upon rational principles , or that prac- tice and theory should ... important and valuable ob- ject of human pursuit , can be clearly establish- ed , it will follow , that those ...
... importance , however , that our actions should be founded upon rational principles , or that prac- tice and theory should ... important and valuable ob- ject of human pursuit , can be clearly establish- ed , it will follow , that those ...
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... by un- friendly climates , the lives and the welfare of thousands are daily sacrificed with a degree of apparent wantonness , which would lead us to VOL . I. B suppose that they are of no importance in the eyes OF HUMAN PURSUIT . 17.
... by un- friendly climates , the lives and the welfare of thousands are daily sacrificed with a degree of apparent wantonness , which would lead us to VOL . I. B suppose that they are of no importance in the eyes OF HUMAN PURSUIT . 17.
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... important ob jection to it was very early perceived : How comes it to pass , that pain and misery have found their way into a world that was contri- ved for no other purpose than that of conferring happiness ? This question , concerning ...
... important ob jection to it was very early perceived : How comes it to pass , that pain and misery have found their way into a world that was contri- ved for no other purpose than that of conferring happiness ? This question , concerning ...
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... and to endeavour to produce the same worth or excellence in the characters of other men . The one of these can- not be successfully performed without the other ; and when united , they form the most important pursuit 30 ULTIMATE OBJECT :
... and to endeavour to produce the same worth or excellence in the characters of other men . The one of these can- not be successfully performed without the other ; and when united , they form the most important pursuit 30 ULTIMATE OBJECT :
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acquire actions activity afford animals appear appetites Aristotle arrangements attained attention avarice beautiful become Birmans Book of Job called cerned character conduct consequence consider consists constitution contrived degree Deity discernment Divine Divine Providence duce duty efforts enable energy enlightened evil excellence exer exertion existence feelings felicity gradually habit happiness Hence human mind human race important individual indolence intel intellectual improvement intelligence involuntary memory jects knowledge labour lence mankind manner means memory ment necessary neral never objects ourselves pain passions perceive perfection persons pleasing pleasure polygamy possess principle produce pursue qualities quire racter rational reason recollect regard religion render riches self-command sense sentiment skilful skill society spect speculative success suffering superstition Supreme Intelligence taste tendency things thought tion train of ideas truth understanding universe valuable viduals vigour virtue virtuous voluntary power weakness whole wisdom wise words
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7. oldal - My story being done, • She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange, 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful; She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man...
6. oldal - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That. I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
35. oldal - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
136. oldal - Is aught so fair In all the dewy landscapes of the spring, In the bright eye of Hesper or the Morn, In Nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair As virtuous Friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others...
35. oldal - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
6. oldal - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
34. oldal - When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street, The young men saw me, and hid themselves : and the aged arose, and stood up.
6. oldal - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
136. oldal - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
35. oldal - But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?