The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Band 6T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1855 |
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... pleasures of social life ; the influence of habit , and a knowledge of the comforts inseparable from society , contribute greatly to strengthen the instinctive desire : and hence some authors have been induced to display their ingenuity ...
... pleasures of social life ; the influence of habit , and a knowledge of the comforts inseparable from society , contribute greatly to strengthen the instinctive desire : and hence some authors have been induced to display their ingenuity ...
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... pleasure arising from their gratification . Self - love , too , is often sacrificed to appetite , when we indulge ourselves in an immediate enjoyment , which we know is likely to be attended with hurtful consequences . 116. Beside our ...
... pleasure arising from their gratification . Self - love , too , is often sacrificed to appetite , when we indulge ourselves in an immediate enjoyment , which we know is likely to be attended with hurtful consequences . 116. Beside our ...
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... pleasures of social life ; the influence of habit , and a knowledge of the comforts inseparable from society , contribute greatly to strengthen the instinctive desire : and hence some authors have been induced to display their ingenuity ...
... pleasures of social life ; the influence of habit , and a knowledge of the comforts inseparable from society , contribute greatly to strengthen the instinctive desire : and hence some authors have been induced to display their ingenuity ...
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... pleasure is , in general , proportioned to the greatness of the effect , compared to the smallness of our exertion . 129. The infant , while still on the breast , delights in exert- ing its little strength upon every object it meets ...
... pleasure is , in general , proportioned to the greatness of the effect , compared to the smallness of our exertion . 129. The infant , while still on the breast , delights in exert- ing its little strength upon every object it meets ...
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... pleasure in calling anything one's own ; a free- hold , though it be but in ice and snow , will make the owner pleased in the pos- session , and stand in the defence of it . " -Addison's Freeholder . ] — 3d edit . 2 [ Among the ...
... pleasure in calling anything one's own ; a free- hold , though it be but in ice and snow , will make the owner pleased in the pos- session , and stand in the defence of it . " -Addison's Freeholder . ] — 3d edit . 2 [ Among the ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 322 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury : unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury ; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury...
Seite 303 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Seite 49 - It seems a proposition, which will not admit of much dispute, that all our ideas are nothing but copies of our impressions, or, in other words, that it is impossible for us to think of anything, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.
Seite 186 - 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.
Seite 313 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Seite 142 - I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections : — if I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to ; — I would court their shade, and greet them kindly for their protection ; —I would cut my name upon them, and swear they were the lovliest trees throughout the desert: if their leaves wither'd, I would teach myself to mourn ; — and when they...
Seite 161 - It is pleasant to be virtuous and good; because that is to excel many others: it is pleasant to grow better; because that is to excel ourselves: it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order, within the bounds of reason and religion; because this is empire: nay, it is pleasant even to mortify and subdue our lusts; because that is victory.
Seite 186 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms...
Seite 312 - Is aught so fair In all the dewy landscapes of the Spring, In the bright eye of Hesper or the Morn, In Nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair As virtuous Friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others...
Seite 141 - 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.