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... great as ours can be now , and hope for a similar deliver- ance . The end of investigation is attained when we either comprehend all that is brought before us , or can draw the 1 line which shall fix the natural limits set by God.
... great as ours can be now , and hope for a similar deliver- ance . The end of investigation is attained when we either comprehend all that is brought before us , or can draw the 1 line which shall fix the natural limits set by God.
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... limits set by God to our knowledge ; and we are not of that desponding , or rather indolent class , who distrust the powers of the human mind to do , in all cases , one or the other of these . So far as our present subject is concerned ...
... limits set by God to our knowledge ; and we are not of that desponding , or rather indolent class , who distrust the powers of the human mind to do , in all cases , one or the other of these . So far as our present subject is concerned ...
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... in this island ; and in this sense it comprehends all the intellectual , active and moral facul- ties of man ; the laws by which they are governed ; the REASONS FOR ITS SLOWER PROGRESS . 23 limits by which 22 LECTURES ON MORAL SCIENCE .
... in this island ; and in this sense it comprehends all the intellectual , active and moral facul- ties of man ; the laws by which they are governed ; the REASONS FOR ITS SLOWER PROGRESS . 23 limits by which 22 LECTURES ON MORAL SCIENCE .
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... limits by which they are controlled , and the means by which they may be improved . " In accordance with this , we find in his course , lectures on external perception , on taste , and on wit and humor , while in his whole twenty- seveņ ...
... limits by which they are controlled , and the means by which they may be improved . " In accordance with this , we find in his course , lectures on external perception , on taste , and on wit and humor , while in his whole twenty- seveņ ...
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... limit . Whoever can answer , in all cases , these three questions , 1st . What ought to be done ? 2d . Why ought it to be done ? and , 3d . How ought it to be done ? has mastered the science of morals . In answering these questions we ...
... limit . Whoever can answer , in all cases , these three questions , 1st . What ought to be done ? 2d . Why ought it to be done ? and , 3d . How ought it to be done ? has mastered the science of morals . In answering these questions we ...
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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.