Lectures on Moral ScienceGould and Lincoln, 1868 - 304 pagina's |
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Pagina 19
... pleasure , and which inspired a confidence of future triumphs in whatever should be attempted . Nor was this confidence without a basis . In the advance of every form of physical science then known , no period of the world can be com ...
... pleasure , and which inspired a confidence of future triumphs in whatever should be attempted . Nor was this confidence without a basis . In the advance of every form of physical science then known , no period of the world can be com ...
Pagina 24
... pleasure as observa- tion by the senses , and can have no such aid from others , we find a reason of no little weight for the slower progress of this science . A fourth reason is to be found in the fact , which we should not have ...
... pleasure as observa- tion by the senses , and can have no such aid from others , we find a reason of no little weight for the slower progress of this science . A fourth reason is to be found in the fact , which we should not have ...
Pagina 37
... pleasure felt by the great discoverers of scientific truths is among the pur- est and most unselfish that can belong to man . It gives them a thought of God which they utter to the race , and it becomes a fountain of joy to millions ...
... pleasure felt by the great discoverers of scientific truths is among the pur- est and most unselfish that can belong to man . It gives them a thought of God which they utter to the race , and it becomes a fountain of joy to millions ...
Pagina 48
... pleasure from each sense is ultimate ; but it may be necessary to choose between that of music through the ear and that of beauty through the eye . In such cases we may indulge our preference ; but no end may be chosen as ultimate when ...
... pleasure from each sense is ultimate ; but it may be necessary to choose between that of music through the ear and that of beauty through the eye . In such cases we may indulge our preference ; but no end may be chosen as ultimate when ...
Pagina 60
... pleasure . So far as this term is employed distinctively , this is the form of enjoyment indi- cated by it , and is that which is sought by those who are called " lovers of pleasure . " It has an inlet through each of the senses . It is ...
... pleasure . So far as this term is employed distinctively , this is the form of enjoyment indi- cated by it , and is that which is sought by those who are called " lovers of pleasure . " It has an inlet through each of the senses . It is ...
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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...