An Enquiry Into the Principles of Human Happiness and Human Duty: In Two BooksW. Pickering, 1843 - 554 Seiten |
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... 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.
... 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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... forces ; the chemist who analyses earths and alkalis , and determines the laws of heat , and of all insensible motion ; the geologist who attempts to discover the causes of the changes already undergone , or now in progress near the ...
... forces ; the chemist who analyses earths and alkalis , and determines the laws of heat , and of all insensible motion ; the geologist who attempts to discover the causes of the changes already undergone , or now in progress near the ...
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... force , otherwise his estimate of their influence on action and happiness will be imperfect . Now imagination alone can disclose this new world to his view , and can magnify passions weak in him- self , till they rise before him in all ...
... force , otherwise his estimate of their influence on action and happiness will be imperfect . Now imagination alone can disclose this new world to his view , and can magnify passions weak in him- self , till they rise before him in all ...
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... original in the hearts of those tyrants who having overthrown a constitution by violence , have afterwards ruled by 7 Essay on Empire . force . Depending for support on a few interested fol- ON DESIRE AND PASSION . 63.
... original in the hearts of those tyrants who having overthrown a constitution by violence , have afterwards ruled by 7 Essay on Empire . force . Depending for support on a few interested fol- ON DESIRE AND PASSION . 63.
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In Two Books George Ramsay. force . Depending for support on a few interested fol- lowers , they govern the mass through the same pas- sion to which they themselves are a prey . They have little left to desire ; much , every thing , to ...
In Two Books George Ramsay. force . Depending for support on a few interested fol- lowers , they govern the mass through the same pas- sion to which they themselves are a prey . They have little left to desire ; much , every thing , to ...
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actions admiration agreeable ambition amusement approve arise beauty become benevolence bodily cause character circumstances common consequence of love consequences considered constantly curiosity custom deaden degree delight desire Diocletian disapprove disposition doubt effect emotion enjoyment ennui Epicurus evil existence faculties fame favour fear feeling former frequently friends Giaour give happiness hence hope hopes and fears human nature Iago influence instance intellect interest jealousy Julius Cæsar labour latter lead less live mankind marriage means ment mental mind moral approbation moral sentiment morphea neral never object occupation opinion Othello pain passion peculiar persons Petrarch philosophy pleasure Plutarch practice praise present principle probably racter reason remark rouse rules savage nations seems self-regarding sense sensibility Soame Jenyns sometimes strong suppose sure Tacitus tendency thing thought Timoleon tion truth utility variety virtue virtuous wealth wish words
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Seite 197 - 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
Seite 416 - 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 further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Seite 243 - 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.
Seite 478 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Seite 68 - 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...
Seite 67 - 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...
Seite 109 - Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Seite 111 - 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.
Seite 119 - O, beware, my lord, of jealousy ; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on...
Seite 254 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?