Elements of Moral Science, Volumen1Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, 1807 - 408 páginas |
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... Nature of the Soul .. Of the Immortality of the Soul .. 2 PART III . - MORAL PHILOSOPHY . Introduction 300 308 327 PART FIRST OF ETHICS . CHAP . I. OF THE GENERAL NATURE OF VIRTUE 332 CHAP . II ... The subject continued . Miscella ...
... Nature of the Soul .. Of the Immortality of the Soul .. 2 PART III . - MORAL PHILOSOPHY . Introduction 300 308 327 PART FIRST OF ETHICS . CHAP . I. OF THE GENERAL NATURE OF VIRTUE 332 CHAP . II ... The subject continued . Miscella ...
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... nature , with a view to the regulation of human conduct , and the enlarge- ment of human power . The mathematical sciences ascertain relations and proportions in quantity and number . - History and philosophy are founded in the ...
... nature , with a view to the regulation of human conduct , and the enlarge- ment of human power . The mathematical sciences ascertain relations and proportions in quantity and number . - History and philosophy are founded in the ...
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... nature . Philoso- phy and mathematics are improved and prosecuted by a right use of reason : but there is this differ- ence between them , that to the discovery of ma- thematical truth reason is alone sufficient ; where- as , to form a ...
... nature . Philoso- phy and mathematics are improved and prosecuted by a right use of reason : but there is this differ- ence between them , that to the discovery of ma- thematical truth reason is alone sufficient ; where- as , to form a ...
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... nature , and according to which all the phenomena of the universe are produced . : 5. Without some acquaintance with nature , we could not act at all , either in pursuing good , or in avoiding evil ; we should not know that fire would ...
... nature , and according to which all the phenomena of the universe are produced . : 5. Without some acquaintance with nature , we could not act at all , either in pursuing good , or in avoiding evil ; we should not know that fire would ...
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... nature , that is , of the things that really exist ; and as all the things that really exist , as far as we are concerned in them and capable of observing them , are either bodies or spirits , philosophy con . sists of two parts , the ...
... nature , that is , of the things that really exist ; and as all the things that really exist , as far as we are concerned in them and capable of observing them , are either bodies or spirits , philosophy con . sists of two parts , the ...
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Página 71 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 231 - Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment ; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Página 119 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Página 295 - The sentiments enforced are so transcendently beautiful, that they never can be out of place or season, wherever they may be found. In his second chapter of Natural Theology, speaking of the Divine attributes, he says: "Revelation gives such a display of the Divine goodness, as must fill us with the most ardent gratitude and adoration. For...
Página 105 - That which in the smallest compass exhibits the greatest variety of beauty, is a fine human face. The features are of various sizes and forms; the corresponding ones exactly uniform; and each has that shape, size, position, and proportion, which is most convenient. Here too is the greatest beauty of colors, which are blended, varied, and disposed with marvellous delicacy. But the chief beauty of the countenance arises from its expression, of sagacity, good-nature, cheerfulness, modesty, and other...
Página 296 - to think, that a Being infinitely good, must also be of infinite mercy : but " still the purity and justice of God must convey the most alarming thoughts " to those who know themselves to have been, in instances without number,
Página 306 - God had given about it to the ancient church, it may with the strictest propriety be said, " that life and immortality have been brought to light by the gospel.
Página 396 - Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do you even so to them.
Página 295 - Revelation gives such a display of " the divine goodness, as must fill us with the most ardent gra" titude and adoration. For in it we find, that God has put it " in our power, notwithstanding our degeneracy and unworthi" ness, to be happy both in this world and for ever ; a hope " which reason alone could never have permitted us to entertain " on any ground of certainty. And here we may repeat what " was already hinted at, that although the right use of rea...
Página 352 - To virtue, therefore, which is the right exercise of our moral powers, the character of man's chief good does belong: which will appear still more evident when we consider, that the hope of future felicity is the chief consolation of the present life, and that the virtuous alone can reasonably entertain that hope. As, on the other hand, vice, in the most prosperous condition, is subject to the pangs of a guilty conscience, and to the dreadful anticipation of future punishment; which are sufficient...