The Principles of Moral Science: Vol. 1Bell & Bradfute, 1805 - 520 sider |
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Side 8
... wise and virtuous man is capable of being happy under disappoint- ment , sickness , exile , and tortures . The absur- dity of this assertion has cast a degree of ridicule upon the stoical philosophy , and brought its pure and elevated ...
... wise and virtuous man is capable of being happy under disappoint- ment , sickness , exile , and tortures . The absur- dity of this assertion has cast a degree of ridicule upon the stoical philosophy , and brought its pure and elevated ...
Side 12
... wise and the foolish , are all nearly upon a level with regard to it . Like the rain , or the light of heaven , it comes freely , or not at all ; insomuch , that those men who have se- riously engaged in the pursuit of happiness have ...
... wise and the foolish , are all nearly upon a level with regard to it . Like the rain , or the light of heaven , it comes freely , or not at all ; insomuch , that those men who have se- riously engaged in the pursuit of happiness have ...
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... wise man , who had balanced well its pains and its joys , would be so far from regarding it as a state of existence contrived to produce felicity , that he would scarcely account it a gift worth accept- ing . The idea , however , that ...
... wise man , who had balanced well its pains and its joys , would be so far from regarding it as a state of existence contrived to produce felicity , that he would scarcely account it a gift worth accept- ing . The idea , however , that ...
Side 41
... wise , is to be perfect . By the terms wisdom and perfection , how- ever , as an object of human pursuit , I do not mean any visionary state of absolute wisdom or absolute perfection , which is to lift mankind above their MORAL ...
... wise , is to be perfect . By the terms wisdom and perfection , how- ever , as an object of human pursuit , I do not mean any visionary state of absolute wisdom or absolute perfection , which is to lift mankind above their MORAL ...
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... wise , a virtuous , and a well - inten- tioned man ; but if he want discernment or skill to perceive the proper and adequate means of attaining to the great object of which he ap- proves , he is so far destitute of wisdom ; and ...
... wise , a virtuous , and a well - inten- tioned man ; but if he want discernment or skill to perceive the proper and adequate means of attaining to the great object of which he ap- proves , he is so far destitute of wisdom ; and ...
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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?