Social and Political MoralitySimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1853 - 204 páginas |
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... human duty ; but as my views and opinions , on many points , may probably differ from many , and as truth on any subject is only arrived at by the conflict and com- parison of opinions , I hope to serve that cause , at least , by their ...
... human duty ; but as my views and opinions , on many points , may probably differ from many , and as truth on any subject is only arrived at by the conflict and com- parison of opinions , I hope to serve that cause , at least , by their ...
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... human suffering . These new moral duties , to keep pace with advancing knowledge , and our higher aspirations for human progress , are the abolition of all commercial restrictions , the avoiding 8 SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MORALITY .
... human suffering . These new moral duties , to keep pace with advancing knowledge , and our higher aspirations for human progress , are the abolition of all commercial restrictions , the avoiding 8 SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MORALITY .
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... human being desires happiness ; and , wherever we find him , whether isolated or living in society , he seems to be in pursuit of it . It is true that men have various and conflicting notions of happiness , and seek it in a variety of ...
... human being desires happiness ; and , wherever we find him , whether isolated or living in society , he seems to be in pursuit of it . It is true that men have various and conflicting notions of happiness , and seek it in a variety of ...
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... individual nor general well- being , or in other words happiness , can be realized except by the practice of particular duties , it becomes necessary for every human being to be made acquainted with those MORALITY DEFINED . 11.
... individual nor general well- being , or in other words happiness , can be realized except by the practice of particular duties , it becomes necessary for every human being to be made acquainted with those MORALITY DEFINED . 11.
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... human duty is MORALITY . It may be defined to be , that course of conduct which is best calculated to produce the largest amount of individual and general well - being . It considers man as a being responsible to man , and to that ...
... human duty is MORALITY . It may be defined to be , that course of conduct which is best calculated to produce the largest amount of individual and general well - being . It considers man as a being responsible to man , and to that ...
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Términos y frases comunes
afford amusements Anglo-Saxon asso become body called cause character Charles Kingsley civilization comfort conduct corrupt court crime criminal cultivated demnation DIRECT TAXES domestic drink effect enjoyment evil feelings friends gentleman George Eliot give habit happiness heart human ignorant INDIVIDUAL DUTIES industry influence injurious intellectual and moral interest Jeremy Bentham JOHN STUART MILL justice justly knowledge labour laws legislators live man's manhood marriage matter Matthew Arnold means means of happiness ment mind moral duties moral nature nations necessary neglect never parents passions peace persons physical pleasure Plutarch Polonius possess present principles produce promote propensities proper purpose reason regard render respect rulers scrofula seek selfish sense Shakespeare society Spanish proverb spect thing thought thrift tion true truth vice vitality waste welfare WILLIAM LOVETT wise young
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Página 124 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Página 222 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Página 156 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Página 232 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Página 41 - Laertes' head. And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Página 103 - Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise— that "the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole...
Página 184 - Thus saith the Lord of hosts : There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Página 119 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Página 74 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Página 78 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.