The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Band 6T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1855 |
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... Universe , 2. Of the Evidences of Design exhibited in the Universe , ART . 2. Of the Moral Attributes of the Deity , 1. Of the Evidences of Benevolent Design in the Universe , . 2. Of the Evidences of the Moral Government of the Deity ...
... Universe , 2. Of the Evidences of Design exhibited in the Universe , ART . 2. Of the Moral Attributes of the Deity , 1. Of the Evidences of Benevolent Design in the Universe , . 2. Of the Evidences of the Moral Government of the Deity ...
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... universe were more extensive , they would be found to do so in all instances whatever . [ Accordingly - Ancient moralists -Sense of Duty as resolvable into the whole of Ethics- Supreme good . ] - 1st and 2d editt . 172. That we have ...
... universe were more extensive , they would be found to do so in all instances whatever . [ Accordingly - Ancient moralists -Sense of Duty as resolvable into the whole of Ethics- Supreme good . ] - 1st and 2d editt . 172. That we have ...
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... universe impress me with a conviction that some cause must have oper- ated to produce them . Here is an intuitive judgment , involv- ing the simple idea of Causation . When we consider the adjacent angles made by a straight line ...
... universe impress me with a conviction that some cause must have oper- ated to produce them . Here is an intuitive judgment , involv- ing the simple idea of Causation . When we consider the adjacent angles made by a straight line ...
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... universe so powerful as those which recommend to us the cultivation of the qualities that constitute the perfection and happiness of our nature . 208. It was a leading object of the ancient moralists , to establish such a union between ...
... universe so powerful as those which recommend to us the cultivation of the qualities that constitute the perfection and happiness of our nature . 208. It was a leading object of the ancient moralists , to establish such a union between ...
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... universe ; or that a rational self - love should induce us , out of prudence , to study every means of rendering ourselves acceptable to the almighty Arbiter of happiness and misery . On the first supposition , we reason in a circle ...
... universe ; or that a rational self - love should induce us , out of prudence , to study every means of rendering ourselves acceptable to the almighty Arbiter of happiness and misery . On the first supposition , we reason in a circle ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
active principles agreeable animal appear appetites argument arises Aristotle association of ideas beauty benevolent affections chap character Cicero ciples circumstances concerning conclusion conduct connexion consequence consider Cudworth Deity desire of esteem disposition doctrine edit Epicurus Essay Ethics evil express external fact favour feel fellow-creatures final cause free agency habits happiness Hobbes human nature ideas influence instance instinctive intellectual judgment justice La Rochefoucauld Liberty Lord Shaftesbury mankind ment mind misanthropy moral constitution moral distinctions moral faculty Moral Philosophy Moral Sentiments moralists motives Necessitarians Necessity notions object observations opinion origin ourselves particular passion perception philosophers Plato pleasure Pompey present principal charm principle of action quæ qualities reason regard remark render respect right and wrong says sect self-love sense of duty Soame Jenyns society species speculative supposed supposition Theory of Moral things tion truth usury vice virtue virtuous words writers
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.