Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806Impr. Spottiswoodes and Shaw, 1849 - 424 Seiten |
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... observe attentively the facts relative to our passions and faculties , this is the value , and this the object , of Moral Philosophy . It teaches , for the conduct of the understanding , a variety of delicate rules which can result only ...
... observe attentively the facts relative to our passions and faculties , this is the value , and this the object , of Moral Philosophy . It teaches , for the conduct of the understanding , a variety of delicate rules which can result only ...
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... observe what the common process is with every child : a child sees certain marks upon a plain piece of paper , which he is taught to call A , B , C ; but if you were to raise certain marks in relief upon pasteboard , as you may of ...
... observe what the common process is with every child : a child sees certain marks upon a plain piece of paper , which he is taught to call A , B , C ; but if you were to raise certain marks in relief upon pasteboard , as you may of ...
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... observe , that he might know them again ; " but having too many objects to learn at once , he forgot many of them , and ( as he said ) at first learned to know , " and again forget , a thousand things in a day . One particular only ...
... observe , that he might know them again ; " but having too many objects to learn at once , he forgot many of them , and ( as he said ) at first learned to know , " and again forget , a thousand things in a day . One particular only ...
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... , dispelling the vision of a rich and creative mind , can come down into the world of realities to observe with steadfastness , and to act with consistency . G 82 FRAGMENT OF LECTURE VI . ON MEMORY . accumulation ON CONCEPTION . 81.
... , dispelling the vision of a rich and creative mind , can come down into the world of realities to observe with steadfastness , and to act with consistency . G 82 FRAGMENT OF LECTURE VI . ON MEMORY . accumulation ON CONCEPTION . 81.
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... observe what I mean . If you choose to quarrel with your eldest son , do it ; if you are determined to be disgusted with the world , and to go and live in Westmoreland , do so ; if you are resolved to quit your country 104 LECTURE IX .
... observe what I mean . If you choose to quarrel with your eldest son , do it ; if you are determined to be disgusted with the world , and to go and live in Westmoreland , do so ; if you are resolved to quit your country 104 LECTURE IX .
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Seite 197 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Seite 341 - The other shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Seite 119 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Seite 118 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Seite 204 - And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise, His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he heaven and earth defied, Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful Muse, Soft pity to infuse; He sung Darius...
Seite 204 - Changed his hand and checked his pride. He chose a mournful muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen...
Seite 222 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Seite 338 - Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place.
Seite 216 - Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate* pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion...
Seite 233 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the Whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.