Lectures on Moral ScienceGould and Lincoln, 1868 - 304 pagina's |
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Pagina 17
... practical judgments common to all . Both the heavens and the moral nature of man yielded him guidance before there was a thought of the science of either . The unscientific man rejoices in the light that comes from Arcturus no less than ...
... practical judgments common to all . Both the heavens and the moral nature of man yielded him guidance before there was a thought of the science of either . The unscientific man rejoices in the light that comes from Arcturus no less than ...
Pagina 18
... practical judgments on the great sub- jects of morals . By their original nature there is within them a guiding light by which the learned and unlearned alike may walk . But in either case , when science began its work , and asked for ...
... practical judgments on the great sub- jects of morals . By their original nature there is within them a guiding light by which the learned and unlearned alike may walk . But in either case , when science began its work , and asked for ...
Pagina 31
... practical regard ; let it be thought of as something which will do for the closet and the schools , but not for practical life ; let there be a general impression that its maxims are repeated in a perfunctory way , as a cover to the ...
... practical regard ; let it be thought of as something which will do for the closet and the schools , but not for practical life ; let there be a general impression that its maxims are repeated in a perfunctory way , as a cover to the ...
Pagina 33
... practical virtue , and so both prevent the imbecility of vice , and disperse the blinding mists that always arise from a corrupt heart . The difficulties just considered are such as to preclude the hope of any great and sudden advance ...
... practical virtue , and so both prevent the imbecility of vice , and disperse the blinding mists that always arise from a corrupt heart . The difficulties just considered are such as to preclude the hope of any great and sudden advance ...
Pagina 35
... practical principles , which do and will control the course of human affairs with something like the certainty of instinct , and quite independent of scientific speculation ? Within the memory of many this question has been put ...
... practical principles , which do and will control the course of human affairs with something like the certainty of instinct , and quite independent of scientific speculation ? Within the memory of many this question has been put ...
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according action affirmation animal appetites approbation ARNOLD GUYOT astronomy attainment beauty become benevolence blessedness body Brown University called character chemical affinity choice choose cloth conception condition connection conscience consciousness constitution distinction duty element enjoyment evil faculties faith feeling force form of activity give happiness harmony Hence HENRY LONGUEVILLE MANSEL higher highest holiness HUGH MILLER idea indicate individual instinct intellect involved knowledge lecture liberty light Lowell Institute lower means ment mind moral act moral affections moral character moral nature moral philosophy moral quality moral reason moral science natural affections natural law ness object obligation octavo original ourselves particles perfect person philosophical skeptic pleasure principle question rational reach regard relation respect selfishness sense simply society sphere suppose supreme end tendency things thought tion true end truth ultimate end virtue virtuous volition whole wholly WILLIAMS COLLEGE wrong
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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...