Lectures on Moral ScienceGould and Lincoln, 1868 - 304 pagina's |
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Pagina ix
... intimate to us , and he who can trace the principle of unity by which nature is harmonized with herself , and man with nature , and man with himself , and the individual with society , and man with God , -who can see in all IX.
... intimate to us , and he who can trace the principle of unity by which nature is harmonized with herself , and man with nature , and man with himself , and the individual with society , and man with God , -who can see in all IX.
Pagina 19
... society , but the face of nature herself . In mental and moral science there has , too , been greater activity than ever before ; but we are not , perhaps , in a position as yet to say how much there has been of prog- ress . There are ...
... society , but the face of nature herself . In mental and moral science there has , too , been greater activity than ever before ; but we are not , perhaps , in a position as yet to say how much there has been of prog- ress . There are ...
Pagina 31
... society has been against it . Again , under this head , in proportion as men are vicious , not only will they lack interest in the science , but they become disqualified for its pursuit . This is in accordance with the laws of all the ...
... society has been against it . Again , under this head , in proportion as men are vicious , not only will they lack interest in the science , but they become disqualified for its pursuit . This is in accordance with the laws of all the ...
Pagina 34
... society , none are so slow as those which are conditioned upon changes in language and character . Even Christianity itself , with its wonderful evidence and its divine power , is far from having taken full possession of the public mind ...
... society , none are so slow as those which are conditioned upon changes in language and character . Even Christianity itself , with its wonderful evidence and its divine power , is far from having taken full possession of the public mind ...
Pagina 38
... society ; so it is that men are often better and worse than their theories ; so it is that God holds in check the evils that would naturally flow from the errors of men . LECTURE II . THREE QUESTIONS . THE CONSIDERATION OF ENDS 38 ...
... society ; so it is that men are often better and worse than their theories ; so it is that God holds in check the evils that would naturally flow from the errors of men . LECTURE II . THREE QUESTIONS . THE CONSIDERATION OF ENDS 38 ...
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Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, Boston Mark Hopkins Volledige weergave - 1862 |
Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, Boston Mark Hopkins Volledige weergave - 1865 |
Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, Boston Mark Hopkins Volledige weergave - 1862 |
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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...