Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806Harper & Brothers, 1850 - 391 страници |
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... truths , and much useful knowledge , in a less dry and repulsive shape than in a discussion on Moral Philosophy they are commonly to be found . CONTENTS . LECTURE I. Page Introductory Lecture 13 LECTURE II viii NOTE .
... truths , and much useful knowledge , in a less dry and repulsive shape than in a discussion on Moral Philosophy they are commonly to be found . CONTENTS . LECTURE I. Page Introductory Lecture 13 LECTURE II viii NOTE .
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... truths which botanists teach of lettuces and cauli- flowers . The same patient observation , and the same caution in inferring , are as necessary for the establish- ment of truth in this science as in any other : rash hypothesis ...
... truths which botanists teach of lettuces and cauli- flowers . The same patient observation , and the same caution in inferring , are as necessary for the establish- ment of truth in this science as in any other : rash hypothesis ...
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... truth is , it fares worse with this science than with many others , because its errors and extravagances are comprehended by so many . If you tell a man that the ground on which he stamps is not ground , but an idea , he naturally ...
... truth is , it fares worse with this science than with many others , because its errors and extravagances are comprehended by so many . If you tell a man that the ground on which he stamps is not ground , but an idea , he naturally ...
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... truth on these sub- jects , without incurring his ridicule , and reprehension . This perhaps is one cause why errors of this nature have been somewhat unduly magnified . Skepticism , which is commonly laid to the charge of this ...
... truth on these sub- jects , without incurring his ridicule , and reprehension . This perhaps is one cause why errors of this nature have been somewhat unduly magnified . Skepticism , which is commonly laid to the charge of this ...
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... truth , you may effect your object ; you may divert a little rivulet from the great stream of nature , and train it cautiously , and obliquely , away ; but if you place yourself in the very depth of her almighty channel , and combat ...
... truth , you may effect your object ; you may divert a little rivulet from the great stream of nature , and train it cautiously , and obliquely , away ; but if you place yourself in the very depth of her almighty channel , and combat ...
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Страница 188 - 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...
Страница 116 - ... 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...
Страница 164 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Страница 117 - Wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors: a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
Страница 194 - 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...
Страница 164 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe...
Страница 315 - 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.
Страница 205 - 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...
Страница 219 - 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.
Страница 209 - 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: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?