Lectures on Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, Boston |
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... tendency to eradicate or diminish them . In the man who believes in disinterested benevolence , the desires and passions and selfish forces may still have the ascendency , while he who holds to the selfish theory may be often moved by ...
... tendency to eradicate or diminish them . In the man who believes in disinterested benevolence , the desires and passions and selfish forces may still have the ascendency , while he who holds to the selfish theory may be often moved by ...
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... tendency to their undue repression , and even eradication . This has given rise to asceticism , and penances , and to a vast brood of superstitious observances . But precisely what the natural law is in its place , that the Christian ...
... tendency to their undue repression , and even eradication . This has given rise to asceticism , and penances , and to a vast brood of superstitious observances . But precisely what the natural law is in its place , that the Christian ...
Page 83
... tendency , impulse , appetency or craving , revealing some want to be satisfied , or capacity of enjoyment to be met , we could have no conception of an end . In our anal- ysis in this direction this is the last thing that we reach ...
... tendency , impulse , appetency or craving , revealing some want to be satisfied , or capacity of enjoyment to be met , we could have no conception of an end . In our anal- ysis in this direction this is the last thing that we reach ...
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... activity of our highest powers . For this , it is not necessary that we should be under the guidance of any specific instinct , for wherever there is a tendency . in our nature that is automatic , there we find 8 INSTINCT. ...
... activity of our highest powers . For this , it is not necessary that we should be under the guidance of any specific instinct , for wherever there is a tendency . in our nature that is automatic , there we find 8 INSTINCT. ...
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... tendencies and yearnings by which the true end of the being shall be revealed to itself , and in which the first movements towards that end shall originate . That a good of any kind should begin to be sought in any other way , is not ...
... tendencies and yearnings by which the true end of the being shall be revealed to itself , and in which the first movements towards that end shall originate . That a good of any kind should begin to be sought in any other way , is not ...
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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.