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... beauty should be either uncultivated or perverted would be the less capable of apprehending and presenting perfectly the science of æs- thetics . But there is in morals a special difficulty . A vicious man is strongly tempted either to ...
... beauty should be either uncultivated or perverted would be the less capable of apprehending and presenting perfectly the science of æs- thetics . But there is in morals a special difficulty . A vicious man is strongly tempted either to ...
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... beauty through the eye . In such cases we may indulge our preference ; but no end may be chosen as ultimate when it would conflict with that which is supreme . Any ultimate end may be adopted as supreme ; but the wisdom of man consists ...
... beauty through the eye . In such cases we may indulge our preference ; but no end may be chosen as ultimate when it would conflict with that which is supreme . Any ultimate end may be adopted as supreme ; but the wisdom of man consists ...
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... beauty , in love , there may be a satisfaction which shall be the measure of our capacity in that direction . This all concede to be a good . We say , then , that in the satisfaction attached by God to the normal activity of our powers ...
... beauty , in love , there may be a satisfaction which shall be the measure of our capacity in that direction . This all concede to be a good . We say , then , that in the satisfaction attached by God to the normal activity of our powers ...
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... beauty , and beneficence . But there the motion is impressed from without ; here it is from within ; there it is unintelligent ; here it comprehends itself ; there it is necessitated ; here it is free ; there there is no consciousness ...
... beauty , and beneficence . But there the motion is impressed from without ; here it is from within ; there it is unintelligent ; here it comprehends itself ; there it is necessitated ; here it is free ; there there is no consciousness ...
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... beauty . The above distinctions are practical , and , from the ten- dency there is in men to seek pleasure in opposition to their higher good , are worthy of careful attention . We e now turn from this broad classification of good to ...
... beauty . The above distinctions are practical , and , from the ten- dency there is in men to seek pleasure in opposition to their higher good , are worthy of careful attention . We e now turn from this broad classification of good to ...
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according action affirmation animal appetites approbation astronomy attainment beauty become blessedness body called character chemical affinity choice choose cloth conception condition connection conscience consciousness constitution desire of power distinction duty element enjoyment evil faculties faith feeling force form of activity FRANCIS WAYLAND give happiness harmony Hence higher highest holiness idea indicate individual instinct intellect involved knowledge law of limitation lecture liberty light LOUIS AGASSIZ lower means ment mind moral act moral affections moral character moral constitution moral nature moral philosophy moral quality moral reason moral science natural affections natural law natural right ness object obligation original ourselves particles perfect person philosophical skeptic pleasure principle question rational reach regard relation respect selfishness sense simply SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON society sphere suppose supreme end tendency things thought tion true end truth ultimate end ural virtue virtuous volition whole wholly wrong
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Page 121 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antick sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 121 - And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Page 66 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Page 121 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Page 61 - It is a property of the machine, for which we know no remedy, that the organs, by which we perceive pleasure, are blunted and benumbed by being frequently exercised in the same way. There is hardly any one who has not found the difference between a gratification, when new, and when familiar ; or any pleasure which does not become indifferent as it grows habitual.
Page 291 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 291 - While you labour for any thing below your proper humanity, you seek a happy life in the region of death. Well saith the moral poet:— Unless above himself he can .Erect himself, how mean a thing is man !
Page 109 - And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under the heavens; this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.