 We exist only as we energize; pleasure is the reflex of unimpeded energy ; energy is the mean by which our faculties are developed ; and a higher energy the end which their development proposes. In action is thus contained the existence, happiness, improvement,...  The Christian Life, Social and Individual - Side 492av Peter Bayne - 1855 - 528 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1852 - 848 sider
...proposes. In action is thus contained the existence, happiness, improvement, and perfection of our being ; and knowledge is only precious, as it may afford a stimulus to the exercise of empowers, and the condition of their more complete activity. Speculative truth is, therefore, subordinate... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 828 sider
...proposes. In action is thus contained the existence, happiness, improvement, and perfection of our being ; and knowledge is only precious, as it may afford a...aloof from practice, a waking error is better than a sleeping truth. Neither, in point of fact, is there found any proportion between the possession of... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 832 sider
...proposes. In action is thus contained the existence, happiness, improvement, and perfection of our being ; and knowledge is only precious, as it may afford a...aloof from practice, a waking error is better than a sleeping truth. Neither, in point of fact, is there found any proportion between the possession of... | |
 | 1853 - 638 sider
...proposes. In action is thus contained the existence, happiness, improvement, and perfection of our being ; and knowledge is only precious as it may afford a...aloof from practice, a waking error is better than a sleeping truth."* ©rtgtnal tTommmu'cnuons. MENTAL DYNAMICS, IN RELATION TO THE SCIENCE OP MEDICINE.... | |
 | 1853 - 618 sider
...proposes. Tn action is thus contained the existence, happiness, improvement, and perfection of our being ; and knowledge is only precious, as it may afford a...quantity of energy which it occasions, — immediately on its discovery, — mediately through its consequences. Life to Endymion was not preferable to death... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1854 - 580 sider
...proposes. In action is thus contained the existence, happiness, improvement, and perfection of our being ; and knowledge is only precious as it may afford a...and the condition of their more complete activity." If knowledge be, indeed, valuable only in proportion to the excitement produced by the pursuit of it,... | |
 | 1854 - 500 sider
...development proposes. In action is thus contained the existence, improvement, and perfection of our being ; and knowledge is only precious as it may afford a...quantity of energy which it occasions — immediately on its discovery — mediately through its consequences. . . . By no other intellectual application... | |
 | 1855 - 592 sider
...proposes. In action is thus contained the existence, happiness, improvement and perfection of our being ; and knowledge is only precious, as it may afford a...to the exercise of our powers, and the condition of Iheir more complete activity. Speculative truth is, therefore, subordinate to speculation itself; and... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - 330 sider
...proposes. In action is thus contained the existence, happiness, improvement, and perfection of our being; and knowledge is only precious as it may afford a...and the condition of their more complete activity. Sir WiUiam Hamilton. Not merely to know, but according to thy knowledge to do, is the destiny of man.... | |
 | 1856 - 412 sider
...contained the existence, happiness, improvement, and perfection of our being; and knowledge is truly precious, as it may afford a stimulus to the exercise...and the condition of their more complete activity." " My faith," says Do Quincey, " my faith is that though a great man may, by a rare possibility, be... | |
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