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... consequence of the ambi- guity of the word passion , it is apt to suggest an errone- ous idea of the author's meaning . It is plain that he uses it to denote our active principles in general ; and , in this sense , there can be no doubt ...
... consequence of the ambi- guity of the word passion , it is apt to suggest an errone- ous idea of the author's meaning . It is plain that he uses it to denote our active principles in general ; and , in this sense , there can be no doubt ...
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... consequence for me , however , to remark at present the intimate relation which an analysis of these propensities bears to the theory of morals , and its practical connection with our opinions on the duties and the happiness of human ...
... consequence for me , however , to remark at present the intimate relation which an analysis of these propensities bears to the theory of morals , and its practical connection with our opinions on the duties and the happiness of human ...
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... in concealing the truth from our own knowl- edge . Most men , perhaps , are disposed , in consequence of these and some other causes , to believe themselves bet- ter than they really are ; and a few , 8 INTRODUCTION .
... in concealing the truth from our own knowl- edge . Most men , perhaps , are disposed , in consequence of these and some other causes , to believe themselves bet- ter than they really are ; and a few , 8 INTRODUCTION .
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... consequence of this law of our nature , the evils of excessive indulgence are doubled , inasmuch as our sensibility to pleasure decays in proportion as the cravings of appetite increase . ate . In general , it will be found , that ...
... consequence of this law of our nature , the evils of excessive indulgence are doubled , inasmuch as our sensibility to pleasure decays in proportion as the cravings of appetite increase . ate . In general , it will be found , that ...
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... consequence of the vague use of the words selfishness and self - love , I shall afterwards take notice . What I wish chiefly to remark at present is , that in no sense of these words can we refer to them the origin of our animal ...
... consequence of the vague use of the words selfishness and self - love , I shall afterwards take notice . What I wish chiefly to remark at present is , that in no sense of these words can we refer to them the origin of our animal ...
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Page 107 - Search then the ruling passion : there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; The fool consistent, and the false sincere ; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Page 25 - Heav'n forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, 'Till one Man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Page 141 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury...
Page 206 - Thus the distinct boundaries and offices of reason and of taste are easily ascertained. The former conveys the knowledge of truth and falsehood: The latter gives the sentiment of beauty and deformity, vice and virtue. The one discovers objects, as they really stand in nature, without addition or diminution: The other has a productive faculty, and gilding or staining all natural objects with the colours, borrowed from internal sentiment, raises, in a manner, a new creation.
Page 225 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, Earth and Heaven!) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime...
Page 337 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Page 90 - I see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall upon the leg, or arm, of another person...
Page 116 - I will omit much usual declamation on the dignity and capacity of our nature ; the superiority of the soul to the body, of the rational to the animal part of our constitution ; upon the worthiness, refinement, and delicacy of some satisfactions, or the meanness, grossness, and sensuality of others ; because I hold that pleasures differ in nothing but in continuance and intensity...
Page 76 - Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 66 - ... yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hard-hearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.