An Enquiry Into the Principles of Human Happiness and Human Duty: In Two BooksW. Pickering, 1843 - 554 страници |
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... ACTION . CHAP . I. - ARGUMENT OF THIS PART .... 465 CHAP . II . - ON THE FINAL CAUSE OF MORAL SENTIMENT . 466 CHAP . III . ON THE NATURE OF VIRTUE ..... 480 CHAP . IV . - ON THE PROPER OBJECT OF MORAL APPROBA- TION .. .... ...... 524 ...
... ACTION . CHAP . I. - ARGUMENT OF THIS PART .... 465 CHAP . II . - ON THE FINAL CAUSE OF MORAL SENTIMENT . 466 CHAP . III . ON THE NATURE OF VIRTUE ..... 480 CHAP . IV . - ON THE PROPER OBJECT OF MORAL APPROBA- TION .. .... ...... 524 ...
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... , on the other hand , was to modify the actions of men in the manner most con- B ducive to their happiness . The grand question which they INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER PAGE GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO MORAL SCIENCE LIMITS AND DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT.
... , on the other hand , was to modify the actions of men in the manner most con- B ducive to their happiness . The grand question which they INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER PAGE GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO MORAL SCIENCE LIMITS AND DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT.
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... actions of men , as to produce the greatest possible sum of human happiness . Hence thoughts , feelings , and actions are the constant subjects of moral science , and the human mind as the source of thought , feeling , and action . It ...
... actions of men , as to produce the greatest possible sum of human happiness . Hence thoughts , feelings , and actions are the constant subjects of moral science , and the human mind as the source of thought , feeling , and action . It ...
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... actions of ourselves . and others . There is no subject which more con- stantly presses itself upon our notice than this . It 8 Legislation is , properly speaking , an art , not a science . It applies to practice the principles derived ...
... actions of ourselves . and others . There is no subject which more con- stantly presses itself upon our notice than this . It 8 Legislation is , properly speaking , an art , not a science . It applies to practice the principles derived ...
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... actions have , in all ages , been approved or disapproved by mankind ; and how- ever much philosophers might differ in their reasons , they have generally been found to agree with each other and with the rest of the world in applauding ...
... actions have , in all ages , been approved or disapproved by mankind ; and how- ever much philosophers might differ in their reasons , they have generally been found to agree with each other and with the rest of the world in applauding ...
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Страница 238 - Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o
Страница 284 - And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Страница 521 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Страница 459 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion: for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Страница 65 - Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold ; stir more than they can quiet ; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees ; pursue some few principles which they have chanced upon absurdly...
Страница 116 - I'd make a life of jealousy ; To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions ? No ! to be once in doubt, Is once to be resolved.
Страница 152 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.
Страница 116 - O, beware, my lord, of jealousy ; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on...
Страница 117 - If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.