The Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers of manHilliard and Brown, 1829 |
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... Mankind CHAPTER FIFTH . Analysis of our Moral Perceptions and Emotions SECTION I - Of the Perception of Right and Wrong SECTION II . Of the agreeable and disagreeable Emotions arising from the Perception of what is Right and Wrong in ...
... Mankind CHAPTER FIFTH . Analysis of our Moral Perceptions and Emotions SECTION I - Of the Perception of Right and Wrong SECTION II . Of the agreeable and disagreeable Emotions arising from the Perception of what is Right and Wrong in ...
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... mankind , our intellectual capacities would for ever remain steril and useless . But it is not in this sense that the word passion is most commonly employed . In its ordinary acceptation it denotes those animal impulses which , although ...
... mankind , our intellectual capacities would for ever remain steril and useless . But it is not in this sense that the word passion is most commonly employed . In its ordinary acceptation it denotes those animal impulses which , although ...
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... mankind into two classes , the active and the speculative . In the present instance , the word active is used in its most extensive significa- tion , as applicable to every voluntary exertion . * Persius , Sat. iii . 1. 67 . According ...
... mankind into two classes , the active and the speculative . In the present instance , the word active is used in its most extensive significa- tion , as applicable to every voluntary exertion . * Persius , Sat. iii . 1. 67 . According ...
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... mankind . At the same time it must be admitted , that the desire of knowledge ( and the same observation is applicable to our other desires ) is of a more dignified nature than those appetites which are common to us with the brutes . A ...
... mankind . At the same time it must be admitted , that the desire of knowledge ( and the same observation is applicable to our other desires ) is of a more dignified nature than those appetites which are common to us with the brutes . A ...
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... mankind cannot be disputed . Man has always been found in a social state ; and there is reason even for thinking , that the principles of union which nature has implanted in his heart operate with the great- est force in those ...
... mankind cannot be disputed . Man has always been found in a social state ; and there is reason even for thinking , that the principles of union which nature has implanted in his heart operate with the great- est force in those ...
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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.