Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2Glazier & Company, 1826 - Intellect |
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Thomas Brown. extension of this principle , we may perceive , how the very excellence of a work of genius often operates against it , in the later estimation which we form of it . What is intrinsically excellent , may , indeed , admit of ...
Thomas Brown. extension of this principle , we may perceive , how the very excellence of a work of genius often operates against it , in the later estimation which we form of it . What is intrinsically excellent , may , indeed , admit of ...
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... principle , that our mirth is excited by every appearance of mental awkwardness . We laugh , for example , when we discover in a work any very visible marks of constraint and difficulty on the part of an author , as in far - fetched ...
... principle , that our mirth is excited by every appearance of mental awkwardness . We laugh , for example , when we discover in a work any very visible marks of constraint and difficulty on the part of an author , as in far - fetched ...
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... principle , and the opinion of the virtuous . The world's dread laugh , which * The expression in the original seems to be " gay contempt . " See Pleasures of Imagina- tion , B. III . v . 260 - and 2nd form of the poem , B. II . v . 524 ...
... principle , and the opinion of the virtuous . The world's dread laugh , which * The expression in the original seems to be " gay contempt . " See Pleasures of Imagina- tion , B. III . v . 260 - and 2nd form of the poem , B. II . v . 524 ...
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... principle of life , within us , may be more truly said to exist , when it loves , than when it merely animates . " Anima magis est ubi amat , quam ubi animat . " The benevolent affections expand and multiply our being , -they make us ...
... principle of life , within us , may be more truly said to exist , when it loves , than when it merely animates . " Anima magis est ubi amat , quam ubi animat . " The benevolent affections expand and multiply our being , -they make us ...
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... principle of compassion within us , we are benefactors almost without willing it ; -we have already done the deed , when , if deliberation had been necessary as a previous step , we should not have proceeded far in the calculation which ...
... principle of compassion within us , we are benefactors almost without willing it ; -we have already done the deed , when , if deliberation had been necessary as a previous step , we should not have proceeded far in the calculation which ...
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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...