Institutes of Moral Philosophy: For the Use of Students in the College of EdinburghA. Kincaid & J. Bell., 1769 - 319 Seiten |
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Seite 95 - This is an ultimate fact in the nature of man, and not to be explained by any thing that is previoufly or better known. Excellency, whether abfolute or comparative, is the fupreme object of human defire. Riches, power, and even pleafure, are coveted with extreme ardour only when they are fuppofed to beftow eminence or rank.
Seite 7 - THeory confifts in referring particular operations to the principles, or general laws, under which they are comprehended ; or in referring particular effects to the caufes from which they proceed.
Seite 222 - No one can become a flave; becaufe no one, from being a perfon, can, in the language of the Roman law, become a thing, or fubjed of property. The fuppofed property of the mafter in the flave, therefore, is matter of ufurpation, not of right.
Seite 263 - ... unite their forces, for common fafety. It may be proved, that moft of the opinions, habits, and purfuits, of men, refult from the ftate of their fociety ; that men are happy in proportion as they love mankind ; that their rights and their duties are relative to each other; and, therefore, that their moft important concerns are to be found in their mutual relations, and in the ftate of their communities. A nation is any independent company or fociety of men acting under a common direction. The...
Seite 18 - Gregory (1724-73) analyzed the differences bctween man and other animals. Man has been usually considered as a Being that has no analogy to the rest of the Animal Creation. . . . But this conduct is very weak and foolish. Nature is a whole, made up of parts which tho...
Seite 24 - ... being equal, the rate at which the multiplication of different races would go, seems to depend on the following particulars:1 — (1.) The age at which the parent becomes prolific ; (2.) The time that elapses in pregnancy ; (3.) The frequency of breeding ; (4.) The numbers of each brood ; and (5.) The period during which the parent continues prolific. The laws of propagation in our own species appear to vary to a certain extent in different climates ; and the general opinion is, that they are...
Seite 154 - the affection of a mind enlightened to conceive what is the object and what the efficacy of God's providence, is, of all others, most pleasant, and approaches most to an entire exemption from...
Seite 291 - ... (2, 8, auch 2, 9; 3, 1; 3, 9). Er selbst forderte, als sich Korsika 1764 und dann Polen an ihn um Verfassungsentwürfe wandten, vorerst eine genaue Beschreibung der Zustände ein (JB Meyer, Voltaire und Rousseau, 1856, S. 153).
Seite 107 - Moral approbation is the judgement formed of characters and actions, as being excellent or just. It is apposed to disapprobation or blame. . . . the apprehension of excellence in himself is attended with elevation of mind. The apprehension of defect is attended with shame or remorse. The same apprehensions respecting other men are attended with complacency, veneration, love...
Seite 222 - ... from wrong of any kind, as from breach of faith. The laft is actually comprehended in the firft, or is founded upon it. A right to command is fometimes acquired by forfeiture, when a perfon who has done a wrong, becomes bound to repair it by his <fendceg.