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... social state with dignity and propriety . The science of rational criticism tends to im- prove the heart no less than the understanding . It tends , in the first place , to moderate the selfish af- fections by sweetening and harmonising ...
... social state with dignity and propriety . The science of rational criticism tends to im- prove the heart no less than the understanding . It tends , in the first place , to moderate the selfish af- fections by sweetening and harmonising ...
Page xxiv
... social intercourse : pride and envy put a man perpetually in opposition to others ; and dispose him to relish bad more than good qualities , even in a companion . How differ- ent that disposition of mind , where every virtue in a ...
... social intercourse : pride and envy put a man perpetually in opposition to others ; and dispose him to relish bad more than good qualities , even in a companion . How differ- ent that disposition of mind , where every virtue in a ...
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... social . Hence it follows , that instinctive actions , where we act blindly and merely by impulse , cannot be reck- oned either social or selfish : thus eating , when prompted by an impulse merely of nature , is nei- ther social nor ...
... social . Hence it follows , that instinctive actions , where we act blindly and merely by impulse , cannot be reck- oned either social or selfish : thus eating , when prompted by an impulse merely of nature , is nei- ther social nor ...
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... social , partly selfish . A just action , when prompted by the principle of duty solely , is neither social nor selfish . When I perform an act of justice with a view to the plea- sure of gratification , the action is selfish : I pay a ...
... social , partly selfish . A just action , when prompted by the principle of duty solely , is neither social nor selfish . When I perform an act of justice with a view to the plea- sure of gratification , the action is selfish : I pay a ...
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... social passion , may be termed dissocial . * When this analysis of human nature is consider- ed , not one article of which can with truth be con- troverted , there is reason to be surprised at the blindness of some philosophers , who ...
... social passion , may be termed dissocial . * When this analysis of human nature is consider- ed , not one article of which can with truth be con- troverted , there is reason to be surprised at the blindness of some philosophers , who ...
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Page 69 - 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 ; she thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
Page 174 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Page 225 - God save the mark ! — And telling me the sovereign'st thing on Earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villainous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 181 - This day is call'd the feast of Crispian : He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
Page 396 - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 122 - I'll not shed her blood ; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light.
Page 383 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 224 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Page 224 - But I remember when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin new reap'd Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home.
Page 227 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O no, the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse : Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore.