An Enquiry Into the Principles of Human Happiness and Human Duty: In Two BooksW. Pickering, 1843 - 554 Seiten |
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... . - On Desire of Reputation ; of Fame or Glory 230 SECT . 6. - On Desire of Knowledge , or Curiosity SECT . 7. - On Desire of continued Existence .. .... 248 265 PART III . ON CERTAIN GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF HAPPINESS .
... . - On Desire of Reputation ; of Fame or Glory 230 SECT . 6. - On Desire of Knowledge , or Curiosity SECT . 7. - On Desire of continued Existence .. .... 248 265 PART III . ON CERTAIN GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF HAPPINESS .
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... knowledge . And if this be useful in general , it must be so especially in Morals , a science of a singularly elastic nature , which by some has been compressed within narrow bounds , while by others it has been allowed to embrace a ...
... knowledge . And if this be useful in general , it must be so especially in Morals , a science of a singularly elastic nature , which by some has been compressed within narrow bounds , while by others it has been allowed to embrace a ...
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... knowledge was supposed to be comprehended under one or other of these three primary classes . However specious this ancient classification may appear , we may fairly doubt whether it ever has been , or is likely , in future , to be of ...
... knowledge was supposed to be comprehended under one or other of these three primary classes . However specious this ancient classification may appear , we may fairly doubt whether it ever has been , or is likely , in future , to be of ...
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... knowledge , to assign to each its proper limits , and mark where it touches upon others ; to point out new branches of inquiry to the curiosity of man- kind ; to give rules for the proper cultivation of all the sciences , as well as for ...
... knowledge , to assign to each its proper limits , and mark where it touches upon others ; to point out new branches of inquiry to the curiosity of man- kind ; to give rules for the proper cultivation of all the sciences , as well as for ...
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... knowledge of the mind , not its regulation , is the object of the latter . Moral qualities differ from the intellectual in this , that the former are immediately connected with the re- gulation of thought , feeling , and action , and ...
... knowledge of the mind , not its regulation , is the object of the latter . Moral qualities differ from the intellectual in this , that the former are immediately connected with the re- gulation of thought , feeling , and action , and ...
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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?