Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, Boston |
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... choose to call them , could have been made before the time of Hume , he would probably never have been heard of as a philosophical skeptic . The mind of Hume had in perfection the acuteness of the skeptic , which enabled him to see ...
... choose to call them , could have been made before the time of Hume , he would probably never have been heard of as a philosophical skeptic . The mind of Hume had in perfection the acuteness of the skeptic , which enabled him to see ...
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... choose something ; as an agent , it is to do something ; as capable of enjoyment , it is to enjoy something ; and as ... choose and do something , and to enjoy something ; and his whole end will be , to be what God intended he should be ...
... choose something ; as an agent , it is to do something ; as capable of enjoyment , it is to enjoy something ; and as ... choose and do something , and to enjoy something ; and his whole end will be , to be what God intended he should be ...
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... choosing this end ; applying all his powers as they were intended for its attainment , he would do all that he ought to do , would have the approbation of God , the approbation of his own conscience , and the sanction of reason . But if ...
... choosing this end ; applying all his powers as they were intended for its attainment , he would do all that he ought to do , would have the approbation of God , the approbation of his own conscience , and the sanction of reason . But if ...
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... choose , divide our duties into those towards God , and those towards man ; but moral science must go wherever the word ought can be applied . But if not faulty on this ground , the definition has an advantage in regard to Christianity ...
... choose , divide our duties into those towards God , and those towards man ; but moral science must go wherever the word ought can be applied . But if not faulty on this ground , the definition has an advantage in regard to Christianity ...
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... choose between that of music through the ear and that of beauty through the eye . In such cases we may indulge our ... choosing that intended by God , which can be but one , and in giving to each of those thus made secondary its proper ...
... choose between that of music through the ear and that of beauty through the eye . In such cases we may indulge our ... choosing that intended by God , which can be but one , and in giving to each of those thus made secondary its proper ...
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Page 121 - All murder'd; for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 85 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 98 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Page 121 - And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Page 121 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Page 291 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 66 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Page 109 - And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under the heavens; this sore travail hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.
Page 151 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and CHANGED the glory of the uncorruptible God into AN IMAGE made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Page 61 - These pleasures, by repetition, lose their relish. It is a property of the machine, for which we know no remedy, that the organs, by which we perceive pleasure, are blunted and benumbed by being frequently exercised in the same way.