The Principles of Moral Science: Vol. 1Bell & Bradfute, 1805 - 520 sider |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-5 af 100
Side 2
... tion arises a division of morality into the two following questions : First , What ought we to regard as the most important object of human pursuit , or as the business of man in this world ? And , secondly By what means is this object ...
... tion arises a division of morality into the two following questions : First , What ought we to regard as the most important object of human pursuit , or as the business of man in this world ? And , secondly By what means is this object ...
Side 19
... tion upon which every human connection is formed , that it must one day be dissolved by a sure , but doubtful , period of mortality . Even the pleasures of science are purchased by much anxious labour , and often at the expence of ...
... tion upon which every human connection is formed , that it must one day be dissolved by a sure , but doubtful , period of mortality . Even the pleasures of science are purchased by much anxious labour , and often at the expence of ...
Side 28
... exert himself successfully for the im- provement of a great por tion of his contempo- raries at least . 2d . Neither ought our exertions for the im- provement of others to be regarded as altogether gratuitous , 28 ULTIMATE OBJECT.
... exert himself successfully for the im- provement of a great por tion of his contempo- raries at least . 2d . Neither ought our exertions for the im- provement of others to be regarded as altogether gratuitous , 28 ULTIMATE OBJECT.
Side 33
... tion to which it is entitled from its poetical merit , its high antiquity , and the importance of the reasonings which it contains , I shall here shortly state its contents , and the principle which it is written to illustrate . The ...
... tion to which it is entitled from its poetical merit , its high antiquity , and the importance of the reasonings which it contains , I shall here shortly state its contents , and the principle which it is written to illustrate . The ...
Side 38
... tion , in enlarging or diminishing the cavity of the chest for the purpose of breathing , and in other efforts necessary to life and health , which proceed without any choice on our part . Our voluntary powers , on the contrary , are ...
... tion , in enlarging or diminishing the cavity of the chest for the purpose of breathing , and in other efforts necessary to life and health , which proceed without any choice on our part . Our voluntary powers , on the contrary , are ...
Almindelige termer og sætninger
acquire actions activity afford animals appear appetites Aristotle arrangements attained attention avarice beautiful become Birmans Book of Job called cerned character conduct consequence consider consists constitution contrived degree Deity discernment Divine Divine Providence duce duty efforts enable energy enlightened evil excellence exer exertion existence feelings felicity gradually habit happiness Hence human mind human race important individual indolence intel intellectual improvement intelligence involuntary memory jects knowledge labour lence mankind manner means memory ment necessary neral never objects ourselves pain passions perceive perfection persons pleasing pleasure polygamy possess principle produce pursue qualities quire racter rational reason recollect regard religion render riches self-command sense sentiment skilful skill society spect speculative success suffering superstition Supreme Intelligence taste tendency things thought tion train of ideas truth understanding universe valuable viduals vigour virtue virtuous voluntary power weakness whole wisdom wise words
Populære passager
Side 7 - My story being done, • She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange, 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful; She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man...
Side 6 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That. I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Side 35 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Side 136 - Is aught so fair In all the dewy landscapes of the spring, In the bright eye of Hesper or the Morn, In Nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair As virtuous Friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others...
Side 35 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Side 6 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Side 34 - When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street, The young men saw me, and hid themselves : and the aged arose, and stood up.
Side 6 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Side 136 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Side 35 - But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?