The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers of man ... To which is prefixed part second of the Outlines of moral philosophy. 1855Thomas Constable and Company; Hamilton, Adams, & Company, London, 1855 |
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... attempted , of the principles of the human mind . His account of the office of Reason , accordingly , in enabling us ... attempt he has made to deduce the origin of our knowledge entirely from Sensation and Reflection . These , according ...
... attempted , of the principles of the human mind . His account of the office of Reason , accordingly , in enabling us ... attempt he has made to deduce the origin of our knowledge entirely from Sensation and Reflection . These , according ...
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... attempt has been made by some later writers , in particular by Dr. Price , to revive the doctrines * [ Illustrations upon the Moral Sense , sect . iv . p . 288 , 3d edit . ] [ Essays , Vol . II . App . i . § 5. ] [ Treatise of Human ...
... attempt has been made by some later writers , in particular by Dr. Price , to revive the doctrines * [ Illustrations upon the Moral Sense , sect . iv . p . 288 , 3d edit . ] [ Essays , Vol . II . App . i . § 5. ] [ Treatise of Human ...
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... attempt an explanation , from this single principle , of all the phenomena of moral perception . 229. The large mixture of valuable truth contained in this most ingenious Theory , and the light which it throws on a part of our frame ...
... attempt an explanation , from this single principle , of all the phenomena of moral perception . 229. The large mixture of valuable truth contained in this most ingenious Theory , and the light which it throws on a part of our frame ...
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... attempt to pene- trate into the designs of Providence . Some observations , much to the same purpose , occur in the works of Maupertuis and of Buffon . To this class of objections against Final Causes , a satisfactory answer is given by ...
... attempt to pene- trate into the designs of Providence . Some observations , much to the same purpose , occur in the works of Maupertuis and of Buffon . To this class of objections against Final Causes , a satisfactory answer is given by ...
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... attempt to resolve the whole of virtue into one particular principle . Among these , that which resolves virtue into Benevolence is undoubtedly the most amiable ; but even this system will appear , from the fol- lowing remarks , to be ...
... attempt to resolve the whole of virtue into one particular principle . Among these , that which resolves virtue into Benevolence is undoubtedly the most amiable ; but even this system will appear , from the fol- lowing remarks , to be ...
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Seite 184 - 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; 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 211 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Seite 241 - 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 130 - My drowsed sense; untroubled, though I thought I then was passing to my former state Insensible, and forthwith to dissolve...
Seite 322 - ... nee erit alia lex Romae, alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac, sed et omnes gentes et omni tempore una lex et sempiterna et immutabilis continebit, unusque erit communis quasi magister et imperator omnium deus, ille legis huius inventor, disceptator, lator; cui qui non parebit, ipse se fugiet ac naturam hominis aspernatus hoc ipso luet maximas poenas, etiamsi cetera supplicia, quae putantur, effugerit...
Seite 139 - 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.
Seite 47 - 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 175 - ... yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.
Seite 211 - 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.
Seite 159 - 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 mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory ; it is pleasant to command our appetites...