The Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers of manHilliard and Brown, 1829 |
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... doctrine de Condillac , ce que Reid avoit demontré contre celle de Locke ; et en adoptant la méthode expérimentale de l'école de la sensation , prouva que cette école avoit été infidele à cette méthode . M. Cousin acheva ce **** L'en ...
... doctrine de Condillac , ce que Reid avoit demontré contre celle de Locke ; et en adoptant la méthode expérimentale de l'école de la sensation , prouva que cette école avoit été infidele à cette méthode . M. Cousin acheva ce **** L'en ...
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... doctrine is well founded ; inasmuch as , without such principles as curiosity , the love of fame , ambition , avarice , or the love of mankind , our intellectual capacities would for ever remain steril and useless . But it is not in ...
... doctrine is well founded ; inasmuch as , without such principles as curiosity , the love of fame , ambition , avarice , or the love of mankind , our intellectual capacities would for ever remain steril and useless . But it is not in ...
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... doctrine similar to that which I have now been controverting , concerning the origin of society , was maintained by some of the ancient sophists , and has found ad- vocates in every age among those writers who wish to depreciate human ...
... doctrine similar to that which I have now been controverting , concerning the origin of society , was maintained by some of the ancient sophists , and has found ad- vocates in every age among those writers who wish to depreciate human ...
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... it bestows . In opposition to this doctrine it seems to me to be clear , that as the object of hunger is not happines but food ; as the object of curiosity is not happiness but knowl- CHAP . II . ] 27 AND MORAL POWERS OF MAN .
... it bestows . In opposition to this doctrine it seems to me to be clear , that as the object of hunger is not happines but food ; as the object of curiosity is not happiness but knowl- CHAP . II . ] 27 AND MORAL POWERS OF MAN .
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... doctrine it may be observed , that , although the desire of esteem is often an useful auxiliary to our sense of duty , and although , in most of our good actions , the two principles are per- haps more or less blended together , yet the ...
... doctrine it may be observed , that , although the desire of esteem is often an useful auxiliary to our sense of duty , and although , in most of our good actions , the two principles are per- haps more or less blended together , yet the ...
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Page 251 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
Page 343 - Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit, primusque per artem Movit agros curis acuens mortalia corda, Nee torpere gravi passus sua regna veterno.
Page 95 - 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.
Page 224 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Page 191 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of...
Page 191 - Is aught so fair In all the dewy landscapes of the Spring, In the bright eye of Hesper or the Morn, In Nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair As virtuous Friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others...
Page 504 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, 'Nunc dimittis' when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 76 - ... appeareth more probability that the same may happen to us ; for the evil that happeneth to an innocent man may happen to every man.
Page 47 - Tis not enough, your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.
Page 68 - 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.