The Principles of Moral Science: Vol. 1Bell & Bradfute, 1805 - 520 oldal |
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... merely because all humnan pleasures diminish by a re- petition of enjoyment . Good health , and a natural cheerfulness of temper , produce as high a degree of happiness as we are capable of enjoying for any length of time . But these we ...
... merely because all humnan pleasures diminish by a re- petition of enjoyment . Good health , and a natural cheerfulness of temper , produce as high a degree of happiness as we are capable of enjoying for any length of time . But these we ...
19. oldal
... merely for the purpose of bestowing happi- ness upon man , its noblest inhabitant , is very ancient , and has been very generally received . It is highly flattering to human vanity , and pre- sents the character of the Maker of the ...
... merely for the purpose of bestowing happi- ness upon man , its noblest inhabitant , is very ancient , and has been very generally received . It is highly flattering to human vanity , and pre- sents the character of the Maker of the ...
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... misery , nor as a being who wishes to produce mere pleasure or felicity for its own sake ; but as a skilful artist , who delights in the diffusion of mind through the universe , and who has contrived this world for OF HUMAN PURSUIT . 23.
... misery , nor as a being who wishes to produce mere pleasure or felicity for its own sake ; but as a skilful artist , who delights in the diffusion of mind through the universe , and who has contrived this world for OF HUMAN PURSUIT . 23.
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... merely for his own bene- fit that the sheep is covered with wool . All the parts of nature are formed as parts of a whole ; and every part has a reference to some other part . Man is not exempted from this general rule . The male and ...
... merely for his own bene- fit that the sheep is covered with wool . All the parts of nature are formed as parts of a whole ; and every part has a reference to some other part . Man is not exempted from this general rule . The male and ...
32. oldal
... merely of enjoyment , but of exist- ence itself . APPENDIX TO CHAPTER FIRST . REMARKS ON THE BOOK OF JOB . Ir appears that , in every period of history , speculative men have been extremely per- plexed by the difficulty which they found ...
... merely of enjoyment , but of exist- ence itself . APPENDIX TO CHAPTER FIRST . REMARKS ON THE BOOK OF JOB . Ir appears that , in every period of history , speculative men have been extremely per- plexed by the difficulty which they found ...
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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?