Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806 |
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... effect , for the prescribed time of the Lecture . Some portions of the first course of Lectures were , a few years after , amplified and embodied in the " Edinburgh Review , " under the titles of Professional Education , * Female ...
... effect , for the prescribed time of the Lecture . Some portions of the first course of Lectures were , a few years after , amplified and embodied in the " Edinburgh Review , " under the titles of Professional Education , * Female ...
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... effect your object ; you may divert a little rivulet from the great stream of nature , and train it cautiously , and obliquely , away ; but if you place yourself in the very depth of her almighty channel , and combat with her eternal ...
... effect your object ; you may divert a little rivulet from the great stream of nature , and train it cautiously , and obliquely , away ; but if you place yourself in the very depth of her almighty channel , and combat with her eternal ...
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... that the science of Moral Philosophy is much better calculated to form intellectual habits , useful in real life . The subtilties about mind and matter , cause and effect , perception and sensation , may be INTRODUCTORY LECTURE . 23.
... that the science of Moral Philosophy is much better calculated to form intellectual habits , useful in real life . The subtilties about mind and matter , cause and effect , perception and sensation , may be INTRODUCTORY LECTURE . 23.
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... effect , perception and sensation , may be for- gotten ; but the power of nice discrimination , of arresting and ... effects of association ; though those effects can not now be pointed out for the first time ; I might have learned ...
... effect , perception and sensation , may be for- gotten ; but the power of nice discrimination , of arresting and ... effects of association ; though those effects can not now be pointed out for the first time ; I might have learned ...
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... effects of that eloquence to which many others here can bear witness as well as myself , -if all these circumstances do not mislead me , I think I may say that never any man has taken up this science of the human mind with such striking ...
... effects of that eloquence to which many others here can bear witness as well as myself , -if all these circumstances do not mislead me , I think I may say that never any man has taken up this science of the human mind with such striking ...
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Page 188 - 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...
Page 317 - 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.
Page 209 - 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 : It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 315 - Upon himself ; 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 ; now conscience wakes despair.
Page 194 - 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...
Page 117 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 219 - 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.
Page 117 - Wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors: a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
Page 113 - ... retorting an objection sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...
Page 205 - 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 to behold The fellows of his crime, the followers rather (Far other once beheld in bliss), condemned For ever now to have their lot in pain...