The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 37-38 |
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Page vi
... virtue of contentedness - The differ- ence between that which is taught by human philosophy , and that which Chris- tianity inspires - The common ground of discontentedness investigated - Passage from Antoninus Pius , on the proper mode ...
... virtue of contentedness - The differ- ence between that which is taught by human philosophy , and that which Chris- tianity inspires - The common ground of discontentedness investigated - Passage from Antoninus Pius , on the proper mode ...
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... virtue shall have been overthrown , shall send forward its pioneers to destroy the barriers between candour and detraction . In the mean time , my readers will not be displeased with this passage from Lucian- " There is no more ...
... virtue shall have been overthrown , shall send forward its pioneers to destroy the barriers between candour and detraction . In the mean time , my readers will not be displeased with this passage from Lucian- " There is no more ...
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... virtue and vice have none but merely relative distinctions , and indeed are not cognisable as virtue and vice till they begin to promote or interrupt the happiness of society . It seems as if there were a certain measure of feli- city ...
... virtue and vice have none but merely relative distinctions , and indeed are not cognisable as virtue and vice till they begin to promote or interrupt the happiness of society . It seems as if there were a certain measure of feli- city ...
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... virtue . " To avoid the charge of egotism , I will say no more of myself , though I must own I was on the point of presenting you with a very astonishing his- tory , but will proceed to the consideration of the subject alluded to above ...
... virtue . " To avoid the charge of egotism , I will say no more of myself , though I must own I was on the point of presenting you with a very astonishing his- tory , but will proceed to the consideration of the subject alluded to above ...
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... virtue re- flected ; and which taste and elegance , and wit and wisdom , have made their favourite abode . ' But if the lover would have reason to repine at the over- throw of this lying system , how would the poet exist in such an ...
... virtue re- flected ; and which taste and elegance , and wit and wisdom , have made their favourite abode . ' But if the lover would have reason to repine at the over- throw of this lying system , how would the poet exist in such an ...
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Page 7 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 272 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find ? Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Page 37 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Page 93 - Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Page 38 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Page viii - Yet time has seen, that lifts the low, And level lays the lofty brow, Has seen this broken pile complete, Big with the vanity of state; But transient is the smile of fate! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Page 93 - As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
Page 270 - Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.
Page 118 - Moral precepts are precepts, the reasons of which we see: positive precepts are precepts, the reasons of which we do not see.* Moral duties arise out of the nature of the case itself, prior to external command. Positive duties do not arise out of the nature of the case, but from external command ; nor would they be duties at all, were it not for such command, received from him whose creatures and subjects we are.
Page 186 - We know, indeed, several of the general laws of matter; and a great part of the natural behaviour of living agents is reducible to general laws. But we know, in a manner, nothing, by what laws storms and tempests, earthquakes, famine, pestilence, become the instruments of destruction to mankind.