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... are now committed to your candid and indulgent consideration . Your sincere Friend , WILLIAMS COLLEGE , OCTOBER 1 , 1862 . MARK HOPKINS . PREFACE . PHILOSOPHY investigates causes , unities , and ends VIII AUTHOR'S ADDRESS .
... are now committed to your candid and indulgent consideration . Your sincere Friend , WILLIAMS COLLEGE , OCTOBER 1 , 1862 . MARK HOPKINS . PREFACE . PHILOSOPHY investigates causes , unities , and ends VIII AUTHOR'S ADDRESS .
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... causes of things . " But in a world where there are so many apparent discrepancies both natural and moral , he must be more happy who knows the arrangement of things into systems , and sees how all these systems go to make up one ...
... causes of things . " But in a world where there are so many apparent discrepancies both natural and moral , he must be more happy who knows the arrangement of things into systems , and sees how all these systems go to make up one ...
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... causes of all things without being able to unravel their perplexities . From the place assigned to Moral Philosophy in the classification adopted in these lectures , an incidental consideration of the above harmonies seemed to be ...
... causes of all things without being able to unravel their perplexities . From the place assigned to Moral Philosophy in the classification adopted in these lectures , an incidental consideration of the above harmonies seemed to be ...
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... causes , and reasons , and classifica- tions , there were conjectures and diversities of opinion without end . Of the apparent movement of the heavens , and of a virtuous or heroic act , men judged alike ; of the cause of that movement ...
... causes , and reasons , and classifica- tions , there were conjectures and diversities of opinion without end . Of the apparent movement of the heavens , and of a virtuous or heroic act , men judged alike ; of the cause of that movement ...
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... causes of a re- sult so impossible to have been anticipated ? And first , we may mention a difficulty much insisted on by Chalmers , as pertaining to the observation of all men- tal phenomena . This arises from the fact that the mind is ...
... causes of a re- sult so impossible to have been anticipated ? And first , we may mention a difficulty much insisted on by Chalmers , as pertaining to the observation of all men- tal phenomena . This arises from the fact that the mind is ...
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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.