Lectures on Moral ScienceGould and Lincoln, 1868 - 304 pagina's |
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... 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 anticipated , that the ...
... 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 anticipated , that the ...
Pagina 27
... tion is , what it is that consciousness gives . If we say that it does thus give both the subject and the object , that sim ple affirmation sweeps away in a moment the whole basis of the ideal and skeptical philosophy . It becomes as ...
... tion is , what it is that consciousness gives . If we say that it does thus give both the subject and the object , that sim ple affirmation sweeps away in a moment the whole basis of the ideal and skeptical philosophy . It becomes as ...
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... tion . A perfect mental science would require , first , the normal action of the faculties to give the phenomena , and then an accurate observation of those phenomena . A per- fect moral science would require the normal action of the ...
... tion . A perfect mental science would require , first , the normal action of the faculties to give the phenomena , and then an accurate observation of those phenomena . A per- fect moral science would require the normal action of the ...
Pagina 40
... tion of an end . Except in the apprehension of an end , there is nothing that a rational being can do , or that a moral being ought to do . This relation of an end to all rational action may be seen if we observe what occurs in the ...
... tion of an end . Except in the apprehension of an end , there is nothing that a rational being can do , or that a moral being ought to do . This relation of an end to all rational action may be seen if we observe what occurs in the ...
Pagina 41
... tion of the structure to its end , and will always express some mode in which the structure must be used to attain the end . What is true of rules is true also of laws . These have often been confounded , but are essentially different ...
... tion of the structure to its end , and will always express some mode in which the structure must be used to attain the end . What is true of rules is true also of laws . These have often been confounded , but are essentially different ...
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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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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...