An Enquiry Into the Principles of Human Happiness and Human Duty: In Two BooksW. Pickering, 1843 - 554 страници |
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... understood than physiology ; and while we can mea- sure the distance of the most remote planets and cal- culate the forces which keep them in their orbits , we still dispute about the ordinary functions of the hu- man TO MORAL SCIENCE . 11.
... understood than physiology ; and while we can mea- sure the distance of the most remote planets and cal- culate the forces which keep them in their orbits , we still dispute about the ordinary functions of the hu- man TO MORAL SCIENCE . 11.
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... sure that it will have an effect . Nor is this delay less advantageous to philosophers themselves than to so- ciety in general ; for if they knew that their schemes would be instantly acted upon , their liberty of specu- lation would be ...
... sure that it will have an effect . Nor is this delay less advantageous to philosophers themselves than to so- ciety in general ; for if they knew that their schemes would be instantly acted upon , their liberty of specu- lation would be ...
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... sure to form some very partial system at best , if it be not quite erroneous . Here their intellect stands them in no stead from the want of data to go upon . Not being able to conceive what they have never felt , they are ignorant of ...
... sure to form some very partial system at best , if it be not quite erroneous . Here their intellect stands them in no stead from the want of data to go upon . Not being able to conceive what they have never felt , they are ignorant of ...
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... sure , between that which arises immediately from the presence or prospect of any object , and that which we feel , because pleasure has first been felt by others . That we do often rejoice on account of the happiness of others , and ...
... sure , between that which arises immediately from the presence or prospect of any object , and that which we feel , because pleasure has first been felt by others . That we do often rejoice on account of the happiness of others , and ...
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... sure of steering clear of the latter is at least one certain good ; and being at ease on this quarter , we can bend all our efforts to the other . When the mind is under the empire of some strong desire , it can never be vacant of ...
... sure of steering clear of the latter is at least one certain good ; and being at ease on this quarter , we can bend all our efforts to the other . When the mind is under the empire of some strong desire , it can never be vacant of ...
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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.