A Study in the Thought of Addison, Johnson and BurkeIndiana University, 1904 - 131 sider |
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Side 5
... action , in giving truer ideas of God , of our neighbor , and of our- selves . Revealed religion shows the blackness of vice , and through the Church of England is prescribed an insti- tutional method of making morality effectual to ...
... action , in giving truer ideas of God , of our neighbor , and of our- selves . Revealed religion shows the blackness of vice , and through the Church of England is prescribed an insti- tutional method of making morality effectual to ...
Side 8
... actions of a few objects that lie contiguous to them . Their knowl- edge and observation turns within a very narrow circle . But as God Almighty can not but perceive and know everything in which He resides , infinite space gives room to ...
... actions of a few objects that lie contiguous to them . Their knowl- edge and observation turns within a very narrow circle . But as God Almighty can not but perceive and know everything in which He resides , infinite space gives room to ...
Side 16
... actions of men , but it bestows no assist- ance upon earthly beings , and however free from taints of impurity , yet wants the sacred splendor of bene- ficence . " 8 Johnson's orthodoxy , of course , included the belief in original sin ...
... actions of men , but it bestows no assist- ance upon earthly beings , and however free from taints of impurity , yet wants the sacred splendor of bene- ficence . " 8 Johnson's orthodoxy , of course , included the belief in original sin ...
Side 18
... action is not virtuous . It is the motive that makes virtue . To be sure , Addison's work was practical . Society was refined . Wit was no longer regarded as the foe of goodness . Life was more comfortable . More than that , Addison's ...
... action is not virtuous . It is the motive that makes virtue . To be sure , Addison's work was practical . Society was refined . Wit was no longer regarded as the foe of goodness . Life was more comfortable . More than that , Addison's ...
Side 20
... action ? Did Addison only move the wits or did his raillery and concrete presentment of folly and foible reach the reason with such clear conviction as to move the will ? It is interesting to note what shape the problem took in ...
... action ? Did Addison only move the wits or did his raillery and concrete presentment of folly and foible reach the reason with such clear conviction as to move the will ? It is interesting to note what shape the problem took in ...
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Side 109 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
Side 118 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest -wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Side 118 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us, a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Side 117 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain; they may have it from Prussia; but, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.
Side 118 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Side 84 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found...
Side 100 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts...
Side 103 - In England we are so convinced of this, that there is no rust of superstition, with which the accumulated absurdity of the human mind might have crusted it over in the course of ages, that ninety-nine in a hundred of the people of England would not prefer to impiety.
Side 113 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule.
Side 114 - Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself ; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.