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... superior powers of the mind . In all ages , practical men have dedicated three- fourths of their time to pursuits calculated to gratify the inferior faculties ; but , unfortunately , the remaining fourth has not been devoted to objects ...
... superior powers of the mind . In all ages , practical men have dedicated three- fourths of their time to pursuits calculated to gratify the inferior faculties ; but , unfortunately , the remaining fourth has not been devoted to objects ...
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... superior sentiments could play . Ambition , that powerful stimulant of the mind in social life , has not been directed enough to moral objects , but generally the reverse . The hours which should have been dedicated to the improvement ...
... superior sentiments could play . Ambition , that powerful stimulant of the mind in social life , has not been directed enough to moral objects , but generally the reverse . The hours which should have been dedicated to the improvement ...
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... superior to the merely physical . A living man , or animal , may be placed in an oven , along with the carcass of a dead animal , remain exposed to a degree of heat which will bake the dead flesh , and yet come out alive , and not ...
... superior to the merely physical . A living man , or animal , may be placed in an oven , along with the carcass of a dead animal , remain exposed to a degree of heat which will bake the dead flesh , and yet come out alive , and not ...
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... superior to a mere propension . And the conclu- sion is , that to allow no more to this superior principle or part of our nature than to other parts ; to let it govern and guide only occasionally in common with the rest , as its turn ...
... superior to a mere propension . And the conclu- sion is , that to allow no more to this superior principle or part of our nature than to other parts ; to let it govern and guide only occasionally in common with the rest , as its turn ...
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... superior to theirs . The exertions which he is called on to make furnish him with pleasing occupation . This becomes the more apparent when we discover that the fertility of the earth , and the demands of the body for food and clothing ...
... superior to theirs . The exertions which he is called on to make furnish him with pleasing occupation . This becomes the more apparent when we discover that the fertility of the earth , and the demands of the body for food and clothing ...
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Seite 26 - Nature's acting upon us every moment which we feel it, or to his having at once contrived and executed his own part in the plan of the world, makes no alteration as to the matter before us.
Seite 35 - It is from considering the relations which the several appetites and passions in the inward frame have to each other, and, above all, the supremacy of reflection or conscience, that we get the idea of the system or constitution of human nature.
Seite 26 - An Author of nature being supposed, it is not so much a deduction of reason, as a matter of experience, that we are thus under his government : under his government in the same sense as we are under the government of civil magistrates. Because the annexing pleasure to some actions, and pain to others, in our power to do or forbear, and giving notice of this appointment beforehand to those whom it concerns ; is the proper formal notion of government.
Seite 32 - ... it. But either of these (and still more both of them) being too much to be attributed to accident, nothing remains but the first supposition, that God, when he created the human species, wished their happiness ; and made for them the provision which he has made, with that view, and for that purpose.
Seite 1 - ... laws take place, without interposing at all, after they had passed them ; without a trial, and the formalities of an execution: if they were able to make their laws execute themselves, or every offender to execute them upon himself, we should be just in the same sense under their government then, as we are now ; but in a much higher degree, and more perfect manner.
Seite 158 - A provision of a very simple kind is also, in some cases, made to prevent the male and female blossoms of the same plant from breeding together, this being found to hurt the breed of vegetables, just as breeding in and in does the breed of animals. It is contrived that the dust shall be shed by the male blossom before the female is ready to be affected by it, so that the impregnation must be performed by the dust of some other plant, and in this way the breed be crossed.
Seite 35 - Mankind has various instincts and principles of action, as brute creatures have; some leading most directly and immediately to the good of the community, and some most directly to private good. 'Man has several which brutes have not; particularly reflection or conscience, an approbation of some principles or actions, and disapprobation of others.
Seite 313 - It was remarked by the celebrated Esquirol, ' that the children whose existence dated from the horrors of the first French Revolution, turned out to be weak, nervous, and irritable in mind, extremely susceptible of impressions, and liable to be thrown by the least extraordinary excitement into absolute insanity.
Seite 13 - On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of digestion, and thereby of conversion ; the construction of the hand of man, and an infinite variety of other arguments; as also by discoveries ancient and modern, in arts, sciences, and the whole extent of literature.
Seite 267 - ... has not yet been in general use for many years, and the author was one of a numerous crew who probably owed their preservation to its almost miraculous warning. It was in a southern latitude. The sun had just set with placid appearance, closing a beautiful afternoon, and the usual mirth of the evening watch was proceeding, when the captain's order came to prepare with all haste for a storm. The barometer had begun to fall with appalling rapidity. As yet, the oldest sailors...