Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, BostonGould and Lincoln, 1862 - 304 pagina's |
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Pagina 41
... obligation to act in any particu- lar way . For the very conception of obligation that of an end is a condition . We see , therefore , that in all rational action the central conception is that of an end . In works of design it con ...
... obligation to act in any particu- lar way . For the very conception of obligation that of an end is a condition . We see , therefore , that in all rational action the central conception is that of an end . In works of design it con ...
Pagina 45
... obligation , must be one . No satisfactory account of the moral nature of man and of its full sphere can be given on any other supposition . We may , if we choose , divide our duties into those towards God , and those towards man ; but ...
... obligation , must be one . No satisfactory account of the moral nature of man and of its full sphere can be given on any other supposition . We may , if we choose , divide our duties into those towards God , and those towards man ; but ...
Pagina 54
... satisfy those who cannot find an adequate end and good in their own highest blessed- ness , and in the highest blessedness of God and his uni- verse . THE GROUND OF OBLIGATION . 55 If the statements now 54 LECTURES ON MORAL SCIENCE .
... satisfy those who cannot find an adequate end and good in their own highest blessed- ness , and in the highest blessedness of God and his uni- verse . THE GROUND OF OBLIGATION . 55 If the statements now 54 LECTURES ON MORAL SCIENCE .
Pagina 55
... obligation or oughtness is a simple idea , and therefore that we can only state the occasion on which it arises . Of its presence in connection with our choice of this end we can give no account , except that such is our constitution ...
... obligation or oughtness is a simple idea , and therefore that we can only state the occasion on which it arises . Of its presence in connection with our choice of this end we can give no account , except that such is our constitution ...
Pagina 98
... obligation to meet death with firmness , when called to it by truth or by duty , does not rest solely upon our individual interests and character ; the interests of mankind are involved . Abstract truths and general prin- ciples often ...
... obligation to meet death with firmness , when called to it by truth or by duty , does not rest solely upon our individual interests and character ; the interests of mankind are involved . Abstract truths and general prin- ciples often ...
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Pagina 121 - All murder'd; for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks...
Pagina 291 - But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Pagina 98 - It is for this reason that the blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the church...
Pagina 121 - And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Pagina 66 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Pagina 109 - And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under the heavens; this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
Pagina 203 - Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Pagina 75 - They that are whole need not a physician, but they that are sick ;" and the law of self-denial as a remedy, or as a condition for the working of other remedies, may be as different from its natural law as the regimen of a sick man should be from that of one who is well. It has been from a consciousness of disorder that difficulties and obscurity have arisen at this point.
Pagina 151 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and CHANGED the glory of the uncorruptible God into AN IMAGE made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Pagina 61 - These pleasures, by repetition, lose their relish. It is a property of the machine, for which we know no remedy, that the organs, by which we perceive pleasure, are blunted and benumbed by being frequently exercised in the same way.