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... happiness be found . To discover these ends and the means of attaining them , is the object of Moral Philosophy . " Then followed such an examination of the constitution of man as I was able to make . This shows that the present ...
... happiness be found . To discover these ends and the means of attaining them , is the object of Moral Philosophy . " Then followed such an examination of the constitution of man as I was able to make . This shows that the present ...
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... HAPPINESS . QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF GOOD -MORAL AND NATURAL GOOD . REGARD FOR OUR OWN GOOD . - CON- NECTION WITH BENEVOLENCE . ENJOYMENT FROM APPROBATION . - THE TRUE END OF MAN . - CONNECTION BETWEEN MORAL AND NATURAL GOOD , . 181 ...
... HAPPINESS . QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF GOOD -MORAL AND NATURAL GOOD . REGARD FOR OUR OWN GOOD . - CON- NECTION WITH BENEVOLENCE . ENJOYMENT FROM APPROBATION . - THE TRUE END OF MAN . - CONNECTION BETWEEN MORAL AND NATURAL GOOD , . 181 ...
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... no excuse . This relation of volition to an ultimate end has not gen- erally been stated with sufficient distinctness , and the result has been a constant puzzle . It is generally said that all men seek happiness , and yet no man ever.
... no excuse . This relation of volition to an ultimate end has not gen- erally been stated with sufficient distinctness , and the result has been a constant puzzle . It is generally said that all men seek happiness , and yet no man ever.
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... happiness , and he gives the happiness . We say " open sesame , " and the gate opens of its own accord . This is what men mean when they say they will do their duty and leave the event with God . But besides an ultimate , there is also ...
... happiness , and he gives the happiness . We say " open sesame , " and the gate opens of its own accord . This is what men mean when they say they will do their duty and leave the event with God . But besides an ultimate , there is also ...
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... happiness ; nor is it the mere satis- fying of any craving ; it is that result in God's creatures that was intended by him , and is an image of his own rational and holy blessedness in the activity of those powers in which we are made ...
... happiness ; nor is it the mere satis- fying of any craving ; it is that result in God's creatures that was intended by him , and is an image of his own rational and holy blessedness in the activity of those powers in which we are made ...
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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.