Theory of Morals: An Inquiry Concerning the Law of Moral Distinctions and the Variations and Contradictions of Ethical Codes |
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... been denominated duties to God . As human knowledge is limited by the extent of human experience , it universally happens , when the cause CLASSIFICATIONS OF ACTIONS . 21 Definition and Classification of Right Actions,
... been denominated duties to God . As human knowledge is limited by the extent of human experience , it universally happens , when the cause CLASSIFICATIONS OF ACTIONS . 21 Definition and Classification of Right Actions,
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... universally happens , when the cause , or origin , or law of any operation is unknown , that an attempt is made to explain it by something that is known . Thus we find in ourselves , and in other animals , a certain power of spontaneous ...
... universally happens , when the cause , or origin , or law of any operation is unknown , that an attempt is made to explain it by something that is known . Thus we find in ourselves , and in other animals , a certain power of spontaneous ...
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... universally pursue their own happiness , the deity , their creator , must have intended them to pursue it ; and that , in pursuing it , they do his will and please him . In this way some of them , such as Paley , have slided ...
... universally pursue their own happiness , the deity , their creator , must have intended them to pursue it ; and that , in pursuing it , they do his will and please him . In this way some of them , such as Paley , have slided ...
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... universally made , and familiar to everybody . Self - interest , in the ordinary use of that word , excludes the motive of benevolence , or love ; and to use it , as some writers do , in a sense including that motive , is precisely like ...
... universally made , and familiar to everybody . Self - interest , in the ordinary use of that word , excludes the motive of benevolence , or love ; and to use it , as some writers do , in a sense including that motive , is precisely like ...
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... universally prevalent in the schools , declared it to be the moral duty of men to disregard their own temporal interest altogether . This doctrine , though , as usually taught , a system of pure selfishness , was nevertheless ...
... universally prevalent in the schools , declared it to be the moral duty of men to disregard their own temporal interest altogether . This doctrine , though , as usually taught , a system of pure selfishness , was nevertheless ...
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Page 94 - If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not ; Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest.
Page 34 - She, while her lover pants upon her breast, Can mark the figures on an Indian chest ; And when she sees her friend in...
Page 93 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 93 - To sleep ! perchance to dream; ay, there 's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There 's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life...
Page 156 - Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies, Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame; Before true passion all those views remove, Fame, wealth, and honour!
Page 141 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Page 67 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute— And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 15 - As was her sister; whether dread did dwell Or anguish in her hart, is hard to tell : Upon her arme a silver anchor lay, Whereon she leaned ever, as befell: And ever up to heaven, as she did pray, Her stedfast eyes were bent, ne swarved other way.
Page 155 - Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all. Our Maker bids increase ; who bids abstain But our Destroyer, foe to God and Man?