Lectures on Moral ScienceGould and Lincoln, 1868 - 304 pagina's |
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Pagina xi
... follow , we are compelled to use terms whose full meaning can be reached only in the progress of the investigation . This is particularly true when , as in the present instance , instead of beginning with defi- nitions , we seek for ...
... follow , we are compelled to use terms whose full meaning can be reached only in the progress of the investigation . This is particularly true when , as in the present instance , instead of beginning with defi- nitions , we seek for ...
Pagina 30
... follow them . Of this difficulty no one has been more fully aware than Locke . He wrote largely upon it , and gave wise precepts ; and yet used the word idea so loosely that on the great subject of the origin of know- ledge it is still ...
... follow them . Of this difficulty no one has been more fully aware than Locke . He wrote largely upon it , and gave wise precepts ; and yet used the word idea so loosely that on the great subject of the origin of know- ledge it is still ...
Pagina 34
... follows from this that , in our cultivation of this field , we are not to be disappointed if we see no immediate or startling results . The changes to be anticipated are like those of geology in the formation of strata , sometimes more ...
... follows from this that , in our cultivation of this field , we are not to be disappointed if we see no immediate or startling results . The changes to be anticipated are like those of geology in the formation of strata , sometimes more ...
Pagina 35
... follow . The processes start from the sciences . In these cases no one questions the utility of science . In the other class the practical results are first and the sciences follow . The sciences start from the processes , which they ...
... follow . The processes start from the sciences . In these cases no one questions the utility of science . In the other class the practical results are first and the sciences follow . The sciences start from the processes , which they ...
Pagina 44
... follow the rule , that is , they do as they would if they un- derstood the connection between the means and the end , and so receive the same benefit . To a finite being faith is a necessary principle of action , and becomes practical ...
... follow the rule , that is , they do as they would if they un- derstood the connection between the means and the end , and so receive the same benefit . To a finite being faith is a necessary principle of action , and becomes practical ...
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Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, Boston Mark Hopkins Volledige weergave - 1862 |
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Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, Boston Mark Hopkins Volledige weergave - 1862 |
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Pagina 121 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king...
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 antick sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Pagina 291 - 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 121 - The needy traveller, serene and gay, Walks the wild heath, and sings his toil away : Does envy seize thee ? crush th...
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 294 - Oh ! let her read, nor loudly, nor elate, The doom that bars us from a better fate ; But, sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in ! And well may Doubt, the mother of Dismay, Pause at her martyr's tomb, and read the lay.
Pagina 98 - It is for this reason that the blood of the martyrs has been the seed of the church...