Remarks Upon Aristotelian and Platonic Ethics, as a Branch of the Studies Pursued in the University of Oxford

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J.H. Parker and J.G. and F. Rivington, London, 1837 - 83 sider
 

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Side 82 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul : neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Side 14 - But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures, of it ; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it, in him who thus employs himself; that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible, ie form a habit of insensibility, to all moral considerations.
Side 5 - Even from their Pagan sleep, Just guessing, through their murky blind, Few, faint, and baffling sight, Streaks of a brighter heaven behind, A cloudless depth of light. Such thoughts, the wreck of Paradise, Through many a dreary age, Upbore whate'er of good and wise Yet lived in bard or sage : They marked what agonizing throes Shook the great mother's womb ; But Reason's spells might not disclose The gracious birth to come ; Nor could th...
Side 14 - ... habit of insensibility, to all moral considerations. For, from our very faculty of habits, passive impressions, by being repeated, grow weaker. Thoughts, by often passing through the mind, are felt less sensibly; being accustomed to danger, begets intrepidity, ie lessens fear ; to distress, lessens the passion of pity ; to instances of others mortality, lessens the sensible apprehension of our own.
Side 5 - Nor could th' enchantress Hope forecast God's secret love and power ; The travail pangs of Earth must last Till her appointed hour ; The hour that saw from opening heaven Redeeming glory stream, Beyond the summer hues of even, Beyond the mid-day beam. Thenceforth, to eyes of high desire. The meanest things below, As with a seraph's robe of fire Invested, burn and glow : The rod of heaven has...
Side 16 - Bible, of the Four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles in the Greek, and of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England.
Side 34 - Aristotle saw, that something more than mere Intellect is required towards Authority in practical subjects; and the doctrine of Spiritual Influence, not merely inspiring (in the strict sense of the term)
Side 32 - He admits, indeed, the general opinion of men as an evidence, but never bows to it as a law. It is always, with him, a reason for inquiry; it may amount even to a ground of presumption; but it is never more.
Side 32 - Opinion (what seems™ to men) and Truth (what is}. Plato was, of course, the philosopher who was led, in opposing the Sceptical philosophy of his time, to protest with most earnestness against the system which substitutes, for divine and eternal Truth, the fluctuating standard of Human Opinion. But Aristotle, although characteristically...

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