Sketches of the Philosophy of MoralsH. Colburn and Company, 1822 - 369 Seiten |
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Seite 252 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils ; for time is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end...
Seite 319 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Seite 91 - MORAL GOOD AND EVIL, then, is only THE CONFORMITY OR DISAGREEMENT OF OUR VOLUNTARY ACTIONS TO SOME LAW, WHEREBY GOOD OR EVIL IS DRAWN ON US, FROM THE WILL AND POWER OF THE LAW-MAKER...
Seite 88 - ... what has an aptness to produce pleasure in us is that we call good, and what is apt to produce pain in us we call evil...
Seite 328 - ... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.
Seite xiv - human animal," these philosophers "deny that any traces of " such an agent" are to be discoverable in the phenomena of life; and having traced the functional powers to certain elementary formations, which they term tissues, and being wholly unable to carry these investigations...
Seite 297 - I follow the LAW of God (what is Laid down by him for the rule of my conduct) when I follow the LAWS of human nature ; which, without any human testimony, we know mui^t proceed from God: and upon these are founded the BIGHTS of man, or what is ordered for man.
Seite 59 - The fecundity of the Herring is astonishing. It has been calculated that if the offspring of a single Herring could be suffered to multiply unmolested and undiminished for twenty years, they would exhibit a bulk ten times the size of the earth.
Seite 297 - I have always been most obedient when most taxed with disobedience. But my right hand is not the right hand of Melinda. The right I revere is not the right adored by sycophants, the jus vagum, the capricious command of princes or ministers. I follow the law of God...
Seite 165 - ... that so often break out between the Indian nations, and which are carried on with so much animosity. Though strangers to the idea of separate property, yet the most uncultivated among them are well acquainted with the rights of their community to the domains they possess, and oppose with vigour every encroachment on them.