History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, Volumen2Smith, Elder & Company, 1876 - 935 páginas |
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... seem that morality is annihilated by this conception . ' Fish , ' says Spinoza , are determined by na- ture to swim ; and big fish to eat little fish , and therefore it is by the highest natural right that fish possess the water , and ...
... seem that morality is annihilated by this conception . ' Fish , ' says Spinoza , are determined by na- ture to swim ; and big fish to eat little fish , and therefore it is by the highest natural right that fish possess the water , and ...
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... seems to have been blundering round the same truths or errors from which the great German elaborated a moral theory far more ingeni- ous , though involving the same fundamental fallacy . He finds fault with the language of some of his ...
... seems to have been blundering round the same truths or errors from which the great German elaborated a moral theory far more ingeni- ous , though involving the same fundamental fallacy . He finds fault with the language of some of his ...
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... seems extremely evident that excitement belongs to the very ideas of moral right and wrong , and is essentially inseparable from the apprehension of them . When we are conscious that an action is fit to be done , or that it ought to be ...
... seems extremely evident that excitement belongs to the very ideas of moral right and wrong , and is essentially inseparable from the apprehension of them . When we are conscious that an action is fit to be done , or that it ought to be ...
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... seems to adapt itself more naturally to the pantheism of Spinoza . 27. Intimately connected with this theology is the meta- physical doctrine which lies at the base of his system . With- Leibnitz , he is a thoroughgoing optimist . He ...
... seems to adapt itself more naturally to the pantheism of Spinoza . 27. Intimately connected with this theology is the meta- physical doctrine which lies at the base of his system . With- Leibnitz , he is a thoroughgoing optimist . He ...
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... seems to shrink from no jest , however scurrilous , and from no paradox , however grotesque , which is calculated to serve the purpose , which he avows in his preface to be his sole purpose , of diverting his readers — readers , it may ...
... seems to shrink from no jest , however scurrilous , and from no paradox , however grotesque , which is calculated to serve the purpose , which he avows in his preface to be his sole purpose , of diverting his readers — readers , it may ...
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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 137 - The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, which obliges everyone, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions...
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 301 - I shall therefore venture to acknowledge, that, not only as a man, but as a British subject, I pray for the flourishing commerce of Germany, Spain, Italy, and even France itself. I am at least certain that Great Britain, and all those nations, would flourish more, did their sovereigns and ministers adopt such enlarged and benevolent sentiments towards each other.
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 373 - Offending race of human kind, By nature, reason, learning, blind ; You who, through frailty, stepp'd aside ; And you, who never fell from pride : You who in different sects were shamm'd, And come to see each other damn'd ; (So some folk told you, but they knew No more of Jove's designs than you ;) — The world's mad business now is o'er, And I resent these pranks no more. — I to such blockheads set my wit ! I damn such fools ! — -Go, go, you're bit.