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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... external objects , or be confined to our mental opera- tions . Thus , we say the mind is active , when engaged in study . In ordinary discourse , indeed , we are apt to confound together action and motion . As the operations in the ...
... external objects , or be confined to our mental opera- tions . Thus , we say the mind is active , when engaged in study . In ordinary discourse , indeed , we are apt to confound together action and motion . As the operations in the ...
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... external situation . Its final cause is also sufficiently obvious ; as it is this which gives rise , in the case of individuals , to a limitation of attention and study ; and lays the foundation of all the advantages which society ...
... external situation . Its final cause is also sufficiently obvious ; as it is this which gives rise , in the case of individuals , to a limitation of attention and study ; and lays the foundation of all the advantages which society ...
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... external objects ; and prompting us to a retaliation on the cause of our suffering , without any exercise whatever of reflection or reason , ] * and was plainly intended to guard us against sudden violence , [ by rousing the powers both ...
... external objects ; and prompting us to a retaliation on the cause of our suffering , without any exercise whatever of reflection or reason , ] * and was plainly intended to guard us against sudden violence , [ by rousing the powers both ...
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... external circumstances lay hold of the mind , and adapt it to its accidental situation . 176. Education may vary , in particular cases , the opinions of individuals with respect to the beautiful and the sublime . But education could not ...
... external circumstances lay hold of the mind , and adapt it to its accidental situation . 176. Education may vary , in particular cases , the opinions of individuals with respect to the beautiful and the sublime . But education could not ...
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... external behaviour . 178. All these doctrines , how erroneous soever , have been maintained by writers not unfriendly to the interests of morality . But some licentious moralists have gone much farther , and have attempted to shew ...
... external behaviour . 178. All these doctrines , how erroneous soever , have been maintained by writers not unfriendly to the interests of morality . But some licentious moralists have gone much farther , and have attempted to shew ...
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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...