Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2Glazier & Company, 1826 - Intellect |
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... and Vice are mere Abstractions , 238 The Mind is blinded to Moral Distinctions , - 1. By extreme Passion , 239 2. By the Complexity of Actions , 240 3. By Association , 243 LECTURE LXXV . PAGE Retrospect of last Lecture , 246 CONTENTS . 5.
... and Vice are mere Abstractions , 238 The Mind is blinded to Moral Distinctions , - 1. By extreme Passion , 239 2. By the Complexity of Actions , 240 3. By Association , 243 LECTURE LXXV . PAGE Retrospect of last Lecture , 246 CONTENTS . 5.
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... Passions , that beauty has had a sort of double effect , in depriving men of their reason . " The greatest men , " says he , " who have felt its effects , have been ignorant of its cause , and we may say , that it has made them lose ...
... Passions , that beauty has had a sort of double effect , in depriving men of their reason . " The greatest men , " says he , " who have felt its effects , have been ignorant of its cause , and we may say , that it has made them lose ...
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... , or however they operate , seem to be the objects , which in all animals , immediately excite those Cowper's Task , Book VI . v . 30-35 . * two passions of gratitude and resentment . They are excited 24 I. IMMEDIATE EMOTIONS ,
... , or however they operate , seem to be the objects , which in all animals , immediately excite those Cowper's Task , Book VI . v . 30-35 . * two passions of gratitude and resentment . They are excited 24 I. IMMEDIATE EMOTIONS ,
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Thomas Brown. two passions of gratitude and resentment . They are excited by inanimate , as well as animated objects . We are angry for a moment , even at the stone that hurts us . A child beats it , a dog barks at it , a choleric man is ...
Thomas Brown. two passions of gratitude and resentment . They are excited by inanimate , as well as animated objects . We are angry for a moment , even at the stone that hurts us . A child beats it , a dog barks at it , a choleric man is ...
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... passions , there is a very striking picture of this kind , in the speech of an old maimed soldier , who , with all his modesty , has been forced to allude to some of his past exploits . " For I have fought , where few alive remain'd ...
... passions , there is a very striking picture of this kind , in the speech of an old maimed soldier , who , with all his modesty , has been forced to allude to some of his past exploits . " For I have fought , where few alive remain'd ...
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Page 253 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 156 - Oh, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ? The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven...
Page 426 - Thou sun, said I, 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 321 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) ' Virtue alone is happiness below.' The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is blest in what it takes, and what it gives ; The joy...
Page 334 - IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn; and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap; reserving nothing for themselves but the chaff and the refuse; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest perhaps...
Page 493 - HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die ; Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlook'd, seen double, by the fool and wise.
Page 409 - ... bitter potion to a distempered state. Times, and occasions, and provocations, will teach their own lessons. The wise will determine from the gravity of the case ; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands ; the brave and bold from the love of honourable danger in a generous cause : but, with or without right, a revolution will be the very last resource of the thinking and the good. The third head of right, asserted...
Page 512 - Are they not his by a peculiar right, And by an emphasis of interest his, Whose eye they fill with tears of holy joy, Whose heart with praise, and whose exalted mind With worthy thoughts of that unwearied love That plann'd, and built, and still upholds a world So clothed with beauty, for rebellious man...
Page 97 - Self-love thus push'd to social, to divine, Gives thee to make thy neighbour's blessing thine. Is this too little for the boundless heart? Extend it, let thy enemies have part: Grasp the whole worlds of reason, life, and sense, In one close system of benevolence: Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of bliss but height of charity.
Page 68 - 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...