The Principles of Moral Science: Vol. 1Bell & Bradfute, 1805 - 520 oldal |
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24. oldal
... intelligence . Pleasure and pain seem to be almost equal in his eyes , and to be used indifferently , as they best promote his grand purpose of creating energy of character . Ex- cessive pleasure subdues the mind , and weakens its ...
... intelligence . Pleasure and pain seem to be almost equal in his eyes , and to be used indifferently , as they best promote his grand purpose of creating energy of character . Ex- cessive pleasure subdues the mind , and weakens its ...
27. oldal
... intelligence , and in relation to the universe , we too would regard ourselves . and our labours in the same light ; and as then most valuable , when our influence is highest in producing the welfare of others , and enabling them to ...
... intelligence , and in relation to the universe , we too would regard ourselves . and our labours in the same light ; and as then most valuable , when our influence is highest in producing the welfare of others , and enabling them to ...
40. oldal
... Intelligence or Wisdom . In an extensive sense , it implies , when ascribed to an individual , that he has cultivated his rational faculties ; that he possesses a speculative knowledge of himself , and of his situation in this world ...
... Intelligence or Wisdom . In an extensive sense , it implies , when ascribed to an individual , that he has cultivated his rational faculties ; that he possesses a speculative knowledge of himself , and of his situation in this world ...
73. oldal
... of foresight comes to be justly regarded as want of intelligence . By observing well our present situation , our knowledge of past ages is also rendered more clear and accurate . The ruins of ITS SUBORDINATE FACULTIES . 73.
... of foresight comes to be justly regarded as want of intelligence . By observing well our present situation , our knowledge of past ages is also rendered more clear and accurate . The ruins of ITS SUBORDINATE FACULTIES . 73.
85. oldal
... import- ance whether the material world be an actual substance , or merely an appearance exhibited by the supreme intelligence . When reason is thus represented as equivalent to a revelation ITS SUBORDINATE FACULTIES . 85.
... import- ance whether the material world be an actual substance , or merely an appearance exhibited by the supreme intelligence . When reason is thus represented as equivalent to a revelation ITS SUBORDINATE FACULTIES . 85.
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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?