Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, BostonGould and Lincoln, 1862 - 304 страници |
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... pleasure , and which inspired a confidence of future triumphs in whatever should be attempted . Nor was this confidence without a basis . In the advance of every form of physical science then known , no period of the world can be com ...
... pleasure , and which inspired a confidence of future triumphs in whatever should be attempted . Nor was this confidence without a basis . In the advance of every form of physical science then known , no period of the world can be com ...
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... pleasure as observa- tion by the senses , and can have no such aid from others , we find a reason of no little weight for the slower progress of this science . A fourth reason is to be found in the fact , which we should not have ...
... pleasure as observa- tion by the senses , and can have no such aid from others , we find a reason of no little weight for the slower progress of this science . A fourth reason is to be found in the fact , which we should not have ...
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... pleasure felt by the great discoverers of scientific truths is among the pur- est and most unselfish that can belong to man . It gives them a thought of God which they utter to the race , and it becomes a fountain of joy to millions ...
... pleasure felt by the great discoverers of scientific truths is among the pur- est and most unselfish that can belong to man . It gives them a thought of God which they utter to the race , and it becomes a fountain of joy to millions ...
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... pleasure from each sense is ultimate ; but it may be necessary to choose between that of music through the ear and that of beauty through the eye . In such cases we may indulge our preference ; but no end may be chosen as ultimate when ...
... pleasure from each sense is ultimate ; but it may be necessary to choose between that of music through the ear and that of beauty through the eye . In such cases we may indulge our preference ; but no end may be chosen as ultimate when ...
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... pleasure . So far as this term is employed distinctively , this is the form of enjoyment indi- cated by it , and is that which is sought by those who are called " lovers of pleasure . " It has an inlet through each of the senses . It is ...
... pleasure . So far as this term is employed distinctively , this is the form of enjoyment indi- cated by it , and is that which is sought by those who are called " lovers of pleasure . " It has an inlet through each of the senses . It is ...
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Страница 121 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king...
Страница 291 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Страница 121 - The needy traveller, serene and gay, Walks the wild heath, and sings his toil away : Does envy seize thee ? crush th...
Страница 121 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Страница 121 - And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Страница 66 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Страница 200 - Honor and wealth, with all his worth and pains ! It seems a story from the world of spirits When any man obtains that which he merits, Or any merits that which he obtains.
Страница 85 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Страница 170 - The will, and the affections of the soul, are not two faculties; the affections are not essentially distinct from the will, nor do they differ from the mere actings of the will, and inclination of the soul, but only in the liveliness and sensibleness of exercise.
Страница 203 - Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.