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... conduct . Our inquiries on this subject must be conducted in one of two ways , either by studying the characters of other men , or by studying our own . In the former way , we may undoubtedly collect many useful hints , and many facts ...
... conduct . Our inquiries on this subject must be conducted in one of two ways , either by studying the characters of other men , or by studying our own . In the former way , we may undoubtedly collect many useful hints , and many facts ...
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... conduct generated by association and fashion . At present , it being useless for any of the purposes which I have in view to attempt so comprehensive and detailed an examination of the subject , I shall confine myself to the general ...
... conduct generated by association and fashion . At present , it being useless for any of the purposes which I have in view to attempt so comprehensive and detailed an examination of the subject , I shall confine myself to the general ...
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... well - meant , but very mistaken , zeal to weaken the influence of this principle of action on human conduct , has been at pains to give as ludicrous an account as possible of its origin . As I 30 INSTINCTIVE PRINCIPLES OF ACTION .
... well - meant , but very mistaken , zeal to weaken the influence of this principle of action on human conduct , has been at pains to give as ludicrous an account as possible of its origin . As I 30 INSTINCTIVE PRINCIPLES OF ACTION .
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... conduct , there must exist some defect in the rational or moral character , for which no other good qualities can sufficiently atone . " He that careth not for his own house is worse than an infidel . " But if this be acknowledged with ...
... conduct , there must exist some defect in the rational or moral character , for which no other good qualities can sufficiently atone . " He that careth not for his own house is worse than an infidel . " But if this be acknowledged with ...
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... conduct of the meanest and most worthless of mankind , who , when they are brought to the scaffold in consequence of the clearest and most decisive evidence of their guilt , frequently persevere to the last , with the terrors of ...
... conduct of the meanest and most worthless of mankind , who , when they are brought to the scaffold in consequence of the clearest and most decisive evidence of their guilt , frequently persevere to the last , with the terrors of ...
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Popular passages
Page 139 - Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury ; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury : that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Page 49 - Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Page 23 - Heav'n forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, 'Till one Man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Page 105 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Page 238 - ... nee erit alia lex Romae, alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac, sed et omnes gentes et omni tempore una lex et sempiterna et immutabilis continebit, unusque erit communis quasi magister et imperator omnium deus, ille legis huius inventor, disceptator, lator; cui qui non parebit, ipse se fugiet ac naturam hominis aspernatus hoc ipso luet maximas poenas, etiamsi cetera supplicia, quae putantur, effugerit" (Cicero, De re publica, III.xxii.33).
Page 204 - Thus the distinct boundaries and offices of reason and of taste are easily ascertained. The former conveys the knowledge of truth and falsehood: The latter gives the sentiment of beauty and deformity, vice and virtue. The one discovers objects, as they really stand in nature...
Page 224 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of...
Page 105 - A tyrant to the wife his heart approves ; A rebel to the very king he loves : He dies, sad outcast of each church and state, And, harder still ! flagitious, yet not great ! Ask you why Wharton broke through every rule ? Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool. Nature well known, no prodigies remain ; Comets are regular, and Wharton plain.
Page 223 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, Earth and Heaven!) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime...
Page 325 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?