The Principles of Moral Science: Vol. 1Bell & Bradfute, 1805 - 520 pages |
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... period , merely because all humnan pleasures diminish by a re- petition of enjoyment . Good health , and a natural cheerfulness of temper , produce as high a degree of happiness as we are capable of enjoying for any length of time . But ...
... period , merely because all humnan pleasures diminish by a re- petition of enjoyment . Good health , and a natural cheerfulness of temper , produce as high a degree of happiness as we are capable of enjoying for any length of time . But ...
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... period of mortality . Even the pleasures of science are purchased by much anxious labour , and often at the expence of health , or at least of that gaiety of spirit which is the source of the highest pleasure . In short , it seems very ...
... period of mortality . Even the pleasures of science are purchased by much anxious labour , and often at the expence of health , or at least of that gaiety of spirit which is the source of the highest pleasure . In short , it seems very ...
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... period of history , speculative men have been extremely per- plexed by the difficulty which they found in reconciling the character of boundless benevo- lence , which they ascribed to the Deity , with the state of suffering , or of ...
... period of history , speculative men have been extremely per- plexed by the difficulty which they found in reconciling the character of boundless benevo- lence , which they ascribed to the Deity , with the state of suffering , or of ...
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... period they irresistibly decline and pass away . Every man's business , with regard to them in his own person , consists chiefly in doing no harm to his health , and in avoiding unneces- sary exposure to hazard ; for beyond this our ...
... period they irresistibly decline and pass away . Every man's business , with regard to them in his own person , consists chiefly in doing no harm to his health , and in avoiding unneces- sary exposure to hazard ; for beyond this our ...
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... periods of infancy , and amidst the earliest efforts of growing strength , we are em- ployed in learning the proper use of our diffe- rent senses , and in correcting them by each other . All that we ought afterwards to do for their ...
... periods of infancy , and amidst the earliest efforts of growing strength , we are em- ployed in learning the proper use of our diffe- rent senses , and in correcting them by each other . All that we ought afterwards to do for their ...
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Page 7 - My story being done, • She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange, 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful; She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man...
Page 6 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That. I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Page 35 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Page 136 - Is aught so fair In all the dewy landscapes of the spring, In the bright eye of Hesper or the Morn, In Nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair As virtuous Friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others...
Page 35 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 6 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 34 - When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street, The young men saw me, and hid themselves : and the aged arose, and stood up.
Page 6 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 136 - 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 Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Page 35 - But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?