Principles of Moral and Political Science: Being Chiefly a Retrospect of Lectures Delivered in the College of Edinburgh, Band 1A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1792 - 512 Seiten |
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Seite 138 - •What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raife and fupport ; That, to the height of this great argument, I may
Seite 139 - obliged, he is ready to embrace his fellow-creatures, and to acknowledge or reward their merits. Even while he complains of his lot he is not unhappy. His complaints are no more than the
Seite 69 - in our minds continually certain images or conceptions of
Seite 221 - globe, he might no doubt apprehend in the breach of his umbilical cord, and in his
Seite 6 - any leading thought, or principle of moment, that may not be found in the writings of others ; and, if the author knew 'where, he might have been as well employed in pointing them out as in
Seite 139 - the terms in which we conclude, that, in the game of human life, the inventor knew well how to accommodate the players.
Seite 26 - is, to the race, what the vital motion of the heart is to the individual ; too
Seite 140 - continues to be taught what the father knew, or the pupil begins where the tutor has ended, and is equally bent on advancement ; to every generation the
Seite 69 - whether the road they had been directed to take was the true, or a falfe one, denied the
Seite 147 - enjoyments, in the affections of benevolence, integrity, and elevation of mind ; and, before they have deliberately