Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806Impr. Spottiswoodes and Shaw, 1849 - 424 страници |
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... appears to be so decisive of their publication , that , under the shadow of such authority , and with the deepest feelings of gratitude to him for the candour and the affectionate approval shown towards their author , they are no longer ...
... appears to be so decisive of their publication , that , under the shadow of such authority , and with the deepest feelings of gratitude to him for the candour and the affectionate approval shown towards their author , they are no longer ...
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... appear to bear a resem- blance . For the soul , they have generally taken the name of the most subtle and invisible fluid with which they were acquainted ; and , accordingly , in a great variety of languages it is signified by the same ...
... appear to bear a resem- blance . For the soul , they have generally taken the name of the most subtle and invisible fluid with which they were acquainted ; and , accordingly , in a great variety of languages it is signified by the same ...
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... appears to be the difference ; -that Natural Philosophy is directed to subjects with which we are little or imperfectly acquainted ; Moral Philosophy investigates faculties we have always exercised , and passions we have always felt ...
... appears to be the difference ; -that Natural Philosophy is directed to subjects with which we are little or imperfectly acquainted ; Moral Philosophy investigates faculties we have always exercised , and passions we have always felt ...
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... appears to me that the science of Moral Philo- sophy is much better calculated to form intellectual habits , useful in real life . The subtleties about mind , and matter , cause , and effect , perception , and sensation , may be ...
... appears to me that the science of Moral Philo- sophy is much better calculated to form intellectual habits , useful in real life . The subtleties about mind , and matter , cause , and effect , perception , and sensation , may be ...
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... appears almost disdaining the mutability and imperfection of the earth on which he treads , to be drawing down fire from heaven , and to be seeking among the gods above , for the permanent , the beautiful , and the grand ! In ...
... appears almost disdaining the mutability and imperfection of the earth on which he treads , to be drawing down fire from heaven , and to be seeking among the gods above , for the permanent , the beautiful , and the grand ! In ...
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Страница 197 - 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 341 - 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.
Страница 119 - ... 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 118 - 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.
Страница 204 - 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 204 - 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...
Страница 222 - 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...
Страница 338 - 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 216 - 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 233 - 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.