The Works of Charles Follen: Lectures on moral philosophy. Fragment of a work on psychologyHilliard, Gray, 1841 |
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Seite 24 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine Sun, the Godhead, who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright, in our progress to his holy seat.
Seite 24 - There is one living and true God, everlasting, without body, parts or passion, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, the Maker and Preserver of all things.
Seite 17 - to imbrced and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the
Seite 168 - The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby cither
Seite 17 - whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which
Seite 27 - moderation, who shall perfectly know his own species, and so act among them, that his life and manners may conform to his knowledge of God and man, may be truly said to discharge the duties of a sage, and to be far exalted above the common herd of the human race.
Seite 25 - the duty of a good man, even at the moment of his destruction, to consist not only in forgiving, but even in a desire of benefiting his destroyer, " as the sandaltree, in the instant of its overthrow, sheds perfume on the axe which fells it.
Seite 205 - or, upon a .smaller scale, the procuring of a maintenance and fortune for our families, by a course of industry and application to our callings, which forms and gives motion to the common occupations of life ; training up a child, prosecuting a .scheme for his future establishment, making ourselves masters of a language or a science, improving or managing an estate
Seite 26 - soul present in all creatures, acquires equanimity toward them all, and shall be absorbed at last in the highest essence, even that of the Almighty himself.
Seite 205 - than none, as the writing of a book, the building of a house, the laying out of a garden, the digging of a fish-pond ; even the raising of a cucumber or