The Principles of Moral Science: Vol. 1Bell & Bradfute, 1805 - 520 oldal |
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... skill , and the perseverance we exert in pursuit of what is ultimately of no importance , will only render our conduct an exhibition of more strenuous and more consummate folly : Whereas , when engaged in attempting to obtain what is ...
... skill , and the perseverance we exert in pursuit of what is ultimately of no importance , will only render our conduct an exhibition of more strenuous and more consummate folly : Whereas , when engaged in attempting to obtain what is ...
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... skill , the fore- sight , and all the best energies of the human mind . The severities of a long and barren win- ter compel us to study the course of the seasons , and give rise to all the arts connected with sub- OF HUMAN PURSUIT . 21.
... skill , the fore- sight , and all the best energies of the human mind . The severities of a long and barren win- ter compel us to study the course of the seasons , and give rise to all the arts connected with sub- OF HUMAN PURSUIT . 21.
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... skill , could rear a splendid fabric of human felicity . But they have never failed to do harm . Their laws to promote population and marriages have depopulated their territories ; their laws to encourage industry have proved restraints ...
... skill , could rear a splendid fabric of human felicity . But they have never failed to do harm . Their laws to promote population and marriages have depopulated their territories ; their laws to encourage industry have proved restraints ...
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... skill to discern proper ob- jects of pursuit , and proper means of pursuing them , together with fortitude , or vigour to pur- sue these objects with steadfastness , form the two great branches of human excellence . Neither does it ...
... skill to discern proper ob- jects of pursuit , and proper means of pursuing them , together with fortitude , or vigour to pur- sue these objects with steadfastness , form the two great branches of human excellence . Neither does it ...
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... skill than merely to those which come under the above appellation , and that no beau- ty is to be found in any art beyond the circle of poetry , painting , and music . Almost every art of every kind , however homely its object may be ...
... skill than merely to those which come under the above appellation , and that no beau- ty is to be found in any art beyond the circle of poetry , painting , and music . Almost every art of every kind , however homely its object may be ...
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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?