An Enquiry Into the Principles of Human Happiness and Human Duty: In Two BooksW. Pickering, 1843 - 554 páginas |
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... greater part is included in the class of emo- tions . It belongs not to a work of this sort to examine these in detail . They form one principal branch of metaphysics , or the philosophy of the human mind , which undertakes to analyse ...
... greater part is included in the class of emo- tions . It belongs not to a work of this sort to examine these in detail . They form one principal branch of metaphysics , or the philosophy of the human mind , which undertakes to analyse ...
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... greater whole of which it forms a part . The globe we inhabit has a real existence by itself , while at the same time it is a part of the universe , and of our planetary system more especially , to which it is related in the way both of ...
... greater whole of which it forms a part . The globe we inhabit has a real existence by itself , while at the same time it is a part of the universe , and of our planetary system more especially , to which it is related in the way both of ...
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... greater security to inquire further into the essential elements of human happiness . I. The first element to be mentioned is the exist- ence of one or two strong and permanent desires for some object or objects . This is an element of ...
... greater security to inquire further into the essential elements of human happiness . I. The first element to be mentioned is the exist- ence of one or two strong and permanent desires for some object or objects . This is an element of ...
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... greater interests , we see people work themselves up into a sort of enthusiasm about small matters , about an actress , a singer , & c . Ils se font We may de l'enthousiasme , as the French say . 54 ON DESIRE AND PASSION .
... greater interests , we see people work themselves up into a sort of enthusiasm about small matters , about an actress , a singer , & c . Ils se font We may de l'enthousiasme , as the French say . 54 ON DESIRE AND PASSION .
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... greater the natural tendency to desire in general , or to any one kind in particular , the less probability is required , and vice versâ . If a man be of an ardent character , a trifling faith will suffice , but if he be indolent ...
... greater the natural tendency to desire in general , or to any one kind in particular , the less probability is required , and vice versâ . If a man be of an ardent character , a trifling faith will suffice , but if he be indolent ...
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Términos y frases comunes
actions admiration agreeable ambition amusement approve arise beauty become benevolence bodily cause character circumstances common consequence of love consequences considered constantly curiosity custom deaden degree delight desire Diocletian disapprove disposition doubt effect emotion enjoyment ennui Epicurus evil existence faculties fame favour fear feeling former frequently friends Giaour give happiness hence hope hopes and fears human nature Iago influence instance intellect interest jealousy Julius Cæsar labour latter lead less live mankind marriage means ment mental mind moral approbation moral sentiment morphea neral never object occupation opinion Othello pain passion peculiar persons Petrarch philosophy pleasure Plutarch practice praise present principle probably racter reason remark rouse rules savage nations seems self-regarding sense sensibility Soame Jenyns sometimes strong suppose sure Tacitus tendency thing thought Timoleon tion truth utility variety virtue virtuous wealth wish words
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Página 197 - Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o
Página 416 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Página 243 - And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Página 478 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 68 - Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold ; stir more than they can quiet ; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees ; pursue some few principles which they have chanced upon absurdly...
Página 67 - Would he were fatter! but I fear him not: Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music...
Página 109 - Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Página 111 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.
Página 119 - O, beware, my lord, of jealousy ; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on...
Página 254 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?