 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1837 - 648 sider
...disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more...ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the schools regarded that office as degrading ; some censured it as immoral. Once, indeed, Posidonius, a distinguished... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 sider
...disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more...ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the schools regarded that office as degrading; some cen* De Jlugmentis, Lib. 1. t Cogitata et visa. \ Advancement... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 sider
...disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more...ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the schools regarded that office as degrading; some censured it as immoral. Once indeed Posidonius, a distingu... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 334 sider
...disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more than theories." Bacon's, on the contrary, was essentially a philosophy of utility and progress ; he thought the fruit... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1849 - 890 sider
...disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more than theories." Bacon's, on the contrary, was essentially a philosophy of utility and progress; he thought the fruit... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 342 sider
...disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealtlargely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more...mind. It could not condescend to the humble office * Novtim Organum, Lib. 1. Aph. 81. ** De Augment!», Lib. 1. "•« Cogitata et vita. •)• Advancement... | |
 | 1852 - 780 sider
...disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more...ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the schools regarded that office as degrading; some censored it as immoral. Once indeed Posidonins, a distinguished... | |
 | William Henry Ruffner - 1852 - 692 sider
...discountenanced by it. " The ancient philosophy," says an able writer, "disdained to be useful.—It could not condescend to the humble office of ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the schools regarded that office as degrading ; some censured it as immoral." Seneca thought philosophy degraded... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 sider
...Augmentis, Lib. 7. Cap. 1. ^f Ib., Lib. 2. Cap. 2. ** Novum Organum, Lib. 1. Aph. 81. ft Cogitata et visa. be more than theories; in attempts to solve insoluble...comfort of human beings. All the schools contemned that office as degrading ; some censured it as immoral. Once indeed Posidonius, a distinguished writer of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 430 sider
...disdained to be usefuT, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more...ministering to the comfort of human beings. All the schools regarded that office as degrading; some censured it as immoral. Once indeed Posidonius, a distinguished... | |
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which were so sublime that they never could be more than theories ; in attempts to solve insoluble enigmas; in exhortations to the attainment of unattainable frames of mind. It could not condescend to the humble office of ministering to the comfort of... 
