An Enquiry Into the Principles of Human Happiness and Human Duty: In Two BooksW. Pickering, 1843 - 554 Seiten |
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... probably still fewer who can be altogether absorbed by general benevolence , it follows with the strongest evidence that particular attachments are necessary to the great bulk of man- kind . And this explains why it so often happens ...
... probably still fewer who can be altogether absorbed by general benevolence , it follows with the strongest evidence that particular attachments are necessary to the great bulk of man- kind . And this explains why it so often happens ...
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... probably exceeds it ; but when the cast is unlucky , and all is over , the suddenness of the transition from riches or com- petence to poverty , surprise at the new situation , and the galling idea that self alone is to blame , all com ...
... probably exceeds it ; but when the cast is unlucky , and all is over , the suddenness of the transition from riches or com- petence to poverty , surprise at the new situation , and the galling idea that self alone is to blame , all com ...
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... probably gain ideas be they right or wrong . So , if we wish strongly for any object , we are im- pelled to meditate upon it , and the wish alternating with thought , constantly tends to give a certain di- rection to the latter . Thus ...
... probably gain ideas be they right or wrong . So , if we wish strongly for any object , we are im- pelled to meditate upon it , and the wish alternating with thought , constantly tends to give a certain di- rection to the latter . Thus ...
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... probably , no part of the character which can so little be modified by education as the greater or less tendency to hopefulness . It is not asserted that education can here do nothing , but nature assuredly does very much more . In ...
... probably , no part of the character which can so little be modified by education as the greater or less tendency to hopefulness . It is not asserted that education can here do nothing , but nature assuredly does very much more . In ...
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... probably the greatest of which our nature is susceptible . The culture of these affections has a twofold good effect ; for it checks those two great tendencies of our nature , the tendency to self , and that to sense ; whereas the ...
... probably the greatest of which our nature is susceptible . The culture of these affections has a twofold good effect ; for it checks those two great tendencies of our nature , the tendency to self , and that to sense ; whereas the ...
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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?