An Enquiry Into the Principles of Human Happiness and Human Duty: In Two BooksW. Pickering, 1843 - 554 страници |
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... . 5. - On Desire of Reputation ; of Fame or Glory 230 SECT . 6. - On Desire of Knowledge , or Curiosity .... 248 SECT . 7. - On Desire of continued Existence ... 265 PART III . ON CERTAIN GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF HAPPINESS .
... . 5. - On Desire of Reputation ; of Fame or Glory 230 SECT . 6. - On Desire of Knowledge , or Curiosity .... 248 SECT . 7. - On Desire of continued Existence ... 265 PART III . ON CERTAIN GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF HAPPINESS .
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... to general favour , and is neces- sary for success in every pursuit , it also leads us to fame or glory , which raises us high in the world . Knowledge is charming for its own sake , and also 82 ON SOME PARTICULAR DESIRES .
... to general favour , and is neces- sary for success in every pursuit , it also leads us to fame or glory , which raises us high in the world . Knowledge is charming for its own sake , and also 82 ON SOME PARTICULAR DESIRES .
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... fame or glory ; 5 . Desire of Knowledge or Curiosity ; 6. Desire of Life here and of continued existence hereafter . On each of these in order I shall offer some remarks . But the pleasures of the senses and amusements must first detain ...
... fame or glory ; 5 . Desire of Knowledge or Curiosity ; 6. Desire of Life here and of continued existence hereafter . On each of these in order I shall offer some remarks . But the pleasures of the senses and amusements must first detain ...
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... fame , so far from being finished , is scarcely yet begun . But what we have to notice at present is the immediate effect of these extreme mental exertions in leading to excess of another sort . The hardest readers are not unfrequently ...
... fame , so far from being finished , is scarcely yet begun . But what we have to notice at present is the immediate effect of these extreme mental exertions in leading to excess of another sort . The hardest readers are not unfrequently ...
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... fame , and may not strike the imagination , but they are highly to be valued on account of the numberless opportunities for performing them . Even politeness will be culti- vated on benevolent grounds , and the little interests and ...
... fame , and may not strike the imagination , but they are highly to be valued on account of the numberless opportunities for performing them . Even politeness will be culti- vated on benevolent grounds , and the little interests and ...
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Страница 64 - Would he were fatter! but I fear him not: Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music...
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.