An Enquiry Into the Principles of Human Happiness and Human Duty: In Two BooksW. Pickering, 1843 - 554 páginas |
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... look upon him simply as an individual , or else as belong- ing to the great family of mankind ; in the other , as a member of a civil community . In the former light , he is merely a citizen of the world ; in the 7 From the Greek ...
... look upon him simply as an individual , or else as belong- ing to the great family of mankind ; in the other , as a member of a civil community . In the former light , he is merely a citizen of the world ; in the 7 From the Greek ...
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... look to the future . For this reason they have properly been called prospective . They are both simple feelings , not susceptible of analysis , either in language or in idea ; and therefore they cannot be defined . From the above it ...
... look to the future . For this reason they have properly been called prospective . They are both simple feelings , not susceptible of analysis , either in language or in idea ; and therefore they cannot be defined . From the above it ...
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... look to others ; and in politics and political economy , home and foreign affairs , home and foreign trade are always kept dis- tinct . This real and fundamental distinction is also met with in the human mind . The great Author of our ...
... look to others ; and in politics and political economy , home and foreign affairs , home and foreign trade are always kept dis- tinct . This real and fundamental distinction is also met with in the human mind . The great Author of our ...
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... looks only to self . This is but one instance of that tendency to excessive simplification , which in the figurative language of Bacon , is one of the gene- ral idols of the human mind . No more acceptable incense could be offered to ...
... looks only to self . This is but one instance of that tendency to excessive simplification , which in the figurative language of Bacon , is one of the gene- ral idols of the human mind . No more acceptable incense could be offered to ...
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... look to our own , and that the pleasure anticipated from sympathy creates the motive to charitable deeds . In this view of the case , we still wish for the good of our neighbour , but only as the means to an end , that end being self ...
... look to our own , and that the pleasure anticipated from sympathy creates the motive to charitable deeds . In this view of the case , we still wish for the good of our neighbour , but only as the means to an end , that end being self ...
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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?