An Enquiry Into the Principles of Human Happiness and Human Duty: In Two Books |
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... seen how it is related to the rest , to some remotely , to others nearly , we must now pro- ceed to consider it more particularly . The object of this branch of philosophy is human duty , and it treats of right and wrong , moral ...
... seen how it is related to the rest , to some remotely , to others nearly , we must now pro- ceed to consider it more particularly . The object of this branch of philosophy is human duty , and it treats of right and wrong , moral ...
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... seen , were made by the ancients towards founding a philosophy of this description , but with no great success . Their sys- tems differed as much among themselves , and were as partial as the opinions met with daily in the world . And ...
... seen , were made by the ancients towards founding a philosophy of this description , but with no great success . Their sys- tems differed as much among themselves , and were as partial as the opinions met with daily in the world . And ...
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... seen standing and looking over the country in an indolent state of mind equally void of pleasure and of pain . It has frequently been re- marked of negroes , whose intellects are of an inferior order , that if not forced to work they ...
... seen standing and looking over the country in an indolent state of mind equally void of pleasure and of pain . It has frequently been re- marked of negroes , whose intellects are of an inferior order , that if not forced to work they ...
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... seen a child ready to cry , merely from the want of some- thing to do . And if this be sometimes the case , where everything is new , and the mind easily filled up , what must occur in after life ? The more we advance in years , until ...
... seen a child ready to cry , merely from the want of some- thing to do . And if this be sometimes the case , where everything is new , and the mind easily filled up , what must occur in after life ? The more we advance in years , until ...
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... yet these two have a greater tendency to do so , as is proved by their effects ; for none else can so upset the mind or body . The differ- 8 Twelfth - night , Act i . ence between them is seen in this , that unsatisfied ON LOVE . 103.
... yet these two have a greater tendency to do so , as is proved by their effects ; for none else can so upset the mind or body . The differ- 8 Twelfth - night , Act i . ence between them is seen in this , that unsatisfied ON LOVE . 103.
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Page 64 - 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...
Page 238 - 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
Page 284 - 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.
Page 521 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 459 - 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 farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 65 - 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...
Page 116 - I'd make a life of jealousy ; To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions ? No ! to be once in doubt, Is once to be resolved.
Page 152 - 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.
Page 116 - O, beware, my lord, of jealousy ; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on...
Page 117 - If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.