History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, Volumen2G. P. Putnam's sons, 1902 |
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... feelings with which we regard actions , or to their consequences to mankind . It forms part of the science of human nature , and it was Clarke's ambition , as it has substantially been the ambition of other metaphysicians , to expound a ...
... feelings with which we regard actions , or to their consequences to mankind . It forms part of the science of human nature , and it was Clarke's ambition , as it has substantially been the ambition of other metaphysicians , to expound a ...
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... feeling of the Divine presence , and enthusiasm a false one ; ' to which he adds , significantly , that the passions aroused in the two cases are much alike . This false belief in a supernatural influence is at the bottom of the ...
... feeling of the Divine presence , and enthusiasm a false one ; ' to which he adds , significantly , that the passions aroused in the two cases are much alike . This false belief in a supernatural influence is at the bottom of the ...
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... feels no want . As against the savage his remarks are per- fectly just . The growth of new desires is undoubtedly an essential condition towards the improvement of society , and every new desire brings new evils in its train . 39. The ...
... feels no want . As against the savage his remarks are per- fectly just . The growth of new desires is undoubtedly an essential condition towards the improvement of society , and every new desire brings new evils in its train . 39. The ...
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... feelings . Nature , in short , is a dark power , whose action can only be inferred from facts , not from any a priori theory of design , harmony , and order . " We know , because we see , that the passions of men , pride , lust , and ...
... feelings . Nature , in short , is a dark power , whose action can only be inferred from facts , not from any a priori theory of design , harmony , and order . " We know , because we see , that the passions of men , pride , lust , and ...
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... feels as they do themselves . He describes the slow growth of language ; and he makes the general remark , which is really instructive and significant , that many things which are ordinarily attributed to one man's genius are really the ...
... feels as they do themselves . He describes the slow growth of language ; and he makes the general remark , which is really instructive and significant , that many things which are ordinarily attributed to one man's genius are really the ...
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Página 302 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Página 26 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Página 190 - I authorise and give up my right of governing myself to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition, that thou give up thy right to him, and authorize all his actions in like manner.
Página 189 - ... from his loins), a man capable of placing in review, after having brought together, from the east, the west, the north, and the south, from the coarseness of the rudest barbarism to the most refined and subtle civilization, all the schemes of government which had ever prevailed amongst mankind...
Página 87 - Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
Página 88 - Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Página 149 - I take to be a voluntary society of men, joining themselves together of their own accord, in order to the public worshipping of God, in such a manner as they judge acceptable to him, and effectual to the salvation of their souls.
Página 226 - I may assume, that the awful Author of our Being is the Author of our place in the order of existence; and that having disposed and marshalled us by a divine tactic, not according to our will, but according to His...
Página 264 - Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
Página 248 - The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity ; and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs.