Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806Impr. Spottiswoodes and Shaw, 1849 - 424 oldal |
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92. oldal
... of imagination . The imagination is stimu- lated by novelty ; and so much so , that whatever other cause affects it , it must be joined * * • FRAGMENT OF LECTURE VIII . ON REASON AND JUDGMENT 92 FRAGMENT OF LECTURE VII .
... of imagination . The imagination is stimu- lated by novelty ; and so much so , that whatever other cause affects it , it must be joined * * • FRAGMENT OF LECTURE VIII . ON REASON AND JUDGMENT 92 FRAGMENT OF LECTURE VII .
105. oldal
... novelty ; The excesses of the people are always to be feared or these contrary maxims that there is a natural tendency in all governments to encroach upon the liberties of the people ; or , that every thing modern is probably an ...
... novelty ; The excesses of the people are always to be feared or these contrary maxims that there is a natural tendency in all governments to encroach upon the liberties of the people ; or , that every thing modern is probably an ...
122. oldal
... novelty ; but if you were to say that man was like a time - glass , -that both must run out , and both render up their dust , I should listen to you . with more attention , because I should feel something like surprise at the sudden ...
... novelty ; but if you were to say that man was like a time - glass , -that both must run out , and both render up their dust , I should listen to you . with more attention , because I should feel something like surprise at the sudden ...
136. oldal
... novelty by any particular pur- pose of utility to which it was subservient . It is a complete instance of incongruity . Add ten years to the age of this incongruous officer , the incongruity would be very faintly diminished ; — make him ...
... novelty by any particular pur- pose of utility to which it was subservient . It is a complete instance of incongruity . Add ten years to the age of this incongruous officer , the incongruity would be very faintly diminished ; — make him ...
137. oldal
... novelty is absolutely a necessary ingredient to the pro- duction of any degree of pleasure , but that the pleasure arising from humour , diminishes , as the surprise dimi- nishes ; — it is less at the second exhibition of any piece of ...
... novelty is absolutely a necessary ingredient to the pro- duction of any degree of pleasure , but that the pleasure arising from humour , diminishes , as the surprise dimi- nishes ; — it is less at the second exhibition of any piece of ...
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acquire action Adam Smith admiration agreeable animals appears Aristotle asso association attention beautiful benevolence Bishop Berkeley bodily body Carneades cause certainly child Cicero colour common conceive danger degree Descartes desire difficulty diminished discover distance doctrine Dugald Stewart effect emotion Epicurus evil excite existence fact faculties favour fear feeling give grief habit human mind humour ideas imagination imitation incongruity instance instinct knowledge labour language LECTURE Leibnitz live Lochaber Locke Lord Bacon Lucullus Malebranche mankind manner means ment Moral Philosophy natural philosophy nature never notion novelty objects observe opinions original pain particular passion perceive perfect person Plato pleasure present principles produce Pyrrho racter reason relation relation of ideas resemblance respect ridiculous sensation sense sort species sublime suppose surprise talent taste thing thought tiful tion truth understanding virtue whole witty word young
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197. oldal - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
341. oldal - The other shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
119. oldal - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
118. oldal - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another.
204. oldal - And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise, His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he heaven and earth defied, Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful Muse, Soft pity to infuse; He sung Darius...
204. oldal - Changed his hand and checked his pride. He chose a mournful muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen...
222. oldal - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up...
338. oldal - Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place.
216. oldal - Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate* pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion...
233. oldal - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the Whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.