Intellectual Sentiments, Explained by the Study of SensationsJoseph Booker, 1809 - 191 páginas |
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... procure our principal happiness , in compliance to the intentions of our Divine Creator , which are engraven in the nature of our exist- ence . We advance to a higher degree of perfection in proportion as the body is less distempered ...
... procure our principal happiness , in compliance to the intentions of our Divine Creator , which are engraven in the nature of our exist- ence . We advance to a higher degree of perfection in proportion as the body is less distempered ...
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... no inducement but the mere promise of happiness , how comes it that we should procure it by the sacrifice of our lives ? History has immortalized such Romans , Greeks , and Chinese , as have devoted themselves to SENTIMENTS . 23.
... no inducement but the mere promise of happiness , how comes it that we should procure it by the sacrifice of our lives ? History has immortalized such Romans , Greeks , and Chinese , as have devoted themselves to SENTIMENTS . 23.
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... procure such a hap- piness ! This heroic principle flows from a se- cret hope , that flatters us with the view of enjoying reputation which will reach us when in the grave . A confused idea of immortality prevails even among those who ...
... procure such a hap- piness ! This heroic principle flows from a se- cret hope , that flatters us with the view of enjoying reputation which will reach us when in the grave . A confused idea of immortality prevails even among those who ...
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... than what his abour can procure . The most expedient resource is , by reflecting on the time elapsed , to be able to make provision for futurity . The ideas of perfection and felicity are the springs which move 102 INTELLECTUAL.
... than what his abour can procure . The most expedient resource is , by reflecting on the time elapsed , to be able to make provision for futurity . The ideas of perfection and felicity are the springs which move 102 INTELLECTUAL.
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... procure a kind of immortality . The omnific Author of Nature looked upon the preservation of our species to be an object more worthy his care , than the singular superiority of any individual . All are but parts of one stupendous whole ...
... procure a kind of immortality . The omnific Author of Nature looked upon the preservation of our species to be an object more worthy his care , than the singular superiority of any individual . All are but parts of one stupendous whole ...
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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.