Intellectual Sentiments, Explained by the Study of SensationsJoseph Booker, 1809 - 191 páginas |
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... Whence comes this adherence ? Does it proceed from the ties of blood or friend- ship ? No , certainly : we have engrafted in us the seeds of benevolence , which are always ready to spring up in favour of virtue , and dispose us to ...
... Whence comes this adherence ? Does it proceed from the ties of blood or friend- ship ? No , certainly : we have engrafted in us the seeds of benevolence , which are always ready to spring up in favour of virtue , and dispose us to ...
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... Whence comes it that we should be so agreeably entertained with representa- tions on the stage , while at the same time we should be shocked with inward horror had they really been performed before us ? It is owing to the different ...
... Whence comes it that we should be so agreeably entertained with representa- tions on the stage , while at the same time we should be shocked with inward horror had they really been performed before us ? It is owing to the different ...
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... whence comes it , that we feel so agreeable an impression from those qua- lities , which constitute 86 INTELLECTUAL.
... whence comes it , that we feel so agreeable an impression from those qua- lities , which constitute 86 INTELLECTUAL.
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... Whence comes it , that we are more dis- pleased at disdain than hatred ? It is be- cause it gives us more pain to have our perfections called in question , than to be H menaced with the loss of any other pos- session . SENTIMENTS . 145.
... Whence comes it , that we are more dis- pleased at disdain than hatred ? It is be- cause it gives us more pain to have our perfections called in question , than to be H menaced with the loss of any other pos- session . SENTIMENTS . 145.
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Young lady. If it is true that benevolence alone can make us happy , whence comes it that the greater part of mankind seem inclined to hatred , malice , and injustice ? The chief cause of this confusion is the false im- pression , which ...
Young lady. If it is true that benevolence alone can make us happy , whence comes it that the greater part of mankind seem inclined to hatred , malice , and injustice ? The chief cause of this confusion is the false im- pression , which ...
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Términos y frases comunes
abilities able agreeable sensations appears Author of Nature beauty become benevolence bloom body brain breast cause charms cheerful choly chords colour consonant Creator delight displeasing disposition Divine DUCHESS OF YORK endeavour enjoy envy Epicurus esteem eternal ev'ry exercise faculties fancy fection feel felicity fibres flatter friendship genius give happiness hatred heart Heav'n human idea idea of perfection imagination immolate impres impression laws of sensation likewise lively mankind manner ment mind misfor motions munificent Nature's neighbour neral ness objects opulence organs ourselves passions peculiar perfection plea pleasing sensation pleasure possess power of love praise preservation pression principal procure proportion racters reason requisite rill Royal Highness Royal Highness's sations satisfaction scene sciences secret self-love senses sensible sentiments shew shine sion soul springs sublimity superior tain tastes thing thought tion torpid true variety virtue virtuous person Whence comes wisdom
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Página 124 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day.
Página 155 - Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
Página 76 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Página 134 - Tis from high life high characters are drawn : A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn ; A judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; Wise if a minister ; but if a king, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more every thing.
Página 120 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Página 123 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Página 95 - Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days : Each want of happiness by hope supplied, And each vacuity of sense by pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy ; In folly's cup still laughs the bubble joy ; One prospect lost, another still we gain, And not a vanity is given in vain : E'en mean self-love becomes, by force divine, The scale to measure others...
Página 99 - Painful preeminence ! yourself to view Above life's weakness, and its comforts too. Bring then these blessings to a strict account ; Make fair deductions ; see to what they 'mount...
Página 31 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.