Studies New and Old of Ethical and Social Subjects |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 55
Page
... character , they are all , strictly speaking , ethical studies , de- velopments in various directions of the views of morals advocated in the author's earlier works . London , May , 1865 . F. P. C. CONTENTS . CHRISTIAN ETHICS AND THE ...
... character , they are all , strictly speaking , ethical studies , de- velopments in various directions of the views of morals advocated in the author's earlier works . London , May , 1865 . F. P. C. CONTENTS . CHRISTIAN ETHICS AND THE ...
Page 8
... character quite sui generis and peculiar . These latter precepts we may justly consider to be essentially and in a special sense Christ's own lessons , the moral ideas which he gave to the world . It would be superfluous to point out ...
... character quite sui generis and peculiar . These latter precepts we may justly consider to be essentially and in a special sense Christ's own lessons , the moral ideas which he gave to the world . It would be superfluous to point out ...
Page 10
... character they attribute to duty . In nearly all cases the earliest teachers con- fine themselves to negative precepts , " Do no mur- der , ' , " " Do not steal , " and the like . Virtue in their eyes consists in abstaining from ...
... character they attribute to duty . In nearly all cases the earliest teachers con- fine themselves to negative precepts , " Do no mur- der , ' , " " Do not steal , " and the like . Virtue in their eyes consists in abstaining from ...
Page 12
... character of duty . He trans- poses the Golden Rule just quoted from the Rabbi's negative to the affirmative form ( Matt . vi . 12 ) : " Therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you , do ye even so unto them , for this is ...
... character of duty . He trans- poses the Golden Rule just quoted from the Rabbi's negative to the affirmative form ( Matt . vi . 12 ) : " Therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you , do ye even so unto them , for this is ...
Page 32
... character of their greatest hero , they recognized offences of this class as a sin , while ig- * Rabbi Elijahu in addereth , quoted by Triglandius , p . 167 . Midrasch Jehillim , fol . 26 . 459 ) . Pesachim , tract of the Mishna ( all ...
... character of their greatest hero , they recognized offences of this class as a sin , while ig- * Rabbi Elijahu in addereth , quoted by Triglandius , p . 167 . Midrasch Jehillim , fol . 26 . 459 ) . Pesachim , tract of the Mishna ( all ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Ahrimanes Ahura-Mazda animals architecture Armaiti artist Aryan race assuredly Asura asylums Avestan language beauty Brahmin brutes ceremonial character child Christ Christian church claims cloth creatures creed death divine doctrine duty eternal ethics evil existence expression faith father feelings FRANCES POWER COBBE Fraser's Magazine future Greek hand happiness Haug heart heaven honour hospitals human idea immortality interest labours less living Mazda ment minds moral nation nature obligation offence original Ormuzd painter painting paradise Parsee pauper perfect perform perhaps poet poetry poor poor-laws praise prayer principle prophets pure purpose race religion religious reproduce Rich in Love sacred schools sculpture secondary self-abnegation selfish sense sentiment sins soul spirit suffering suttee temple thing thought tion torture Translated true truth Vendidad virtue vivisections wants wherein whole woman words workhouse Yasna Zend Avesta Zoroaster Zoroastrian
Popular passages
Page 385 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 435 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Page 310 - ... what shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Page 435 - For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Page 12 - All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets : Matt, vii, 12.
Page 423 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Page 96 - Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee Aud sophists, madly vain of dubious lore...
Page 11 - 1. Do not kill. 2. Do not steal. 3. Do not commit adultery. 4. Do not lie. 5. Do not slander.
Page 44 - ... he were every day guilty of some himself; and, at the same time, as cautious of committing a fault, as if he never forgave one.
Page 18 - To the like purpose is Mic. vi. 8. He hath shewed thee, 0 man, what is good ; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justice, and love MERCY, and walk humbly with thy God ? And also Hos.