The Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers of manHilliard and Brown, 1829 |
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... motives which induce us to exert our in- tellectual powers ; and our intellectual powers are the instruments by which we attain the ends recommended to us by our active propensities : " Reason the card , but passion is the gale . " It ...
... motives which induce us to exert our in- tellectual powers ; and our intellectual powers are the instruments by which we attain the ends recommended to us by our active propensities : " Reason the card , but passion is the gale . " It ...
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... motive , may , in another , proceed from a number of motives conspiring together and modifying each other's effects . The phi- losophers who have speculated on this subject , have in general been misled by an excessive love of ...
... motive , may , in another , proceed from a number of motives conspiring together and modifying each other's effects . The phi- losophers who have speculated on this subject , have in general been misled by an excessive love of ...
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... motives of oth- ers are liable to so much uncertainty , that it is chiefly by attending to what passes in our own minds that we can reasonably hope to ascertain the general laws of our constitution as active and moral beings . Even this ...
... motives of oth- ers are liable to so much uncertainty , that it is chiefly by attending to what passes in our own minds that we can reasonably hope to ascertain the general laws of our constitution as active and moral beings . Even this ...
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... motives of human conduct generated by association and fashion . At present , it being useless for any of the purposes which I have in view to attempt so comprehensive and detailed an examination of the subject , I shall confine my- self ...
... motives of human conduct generated by association and fashion . At present , it being useless for any of the purposes which I have in view to attempt so comprehensive and detailed an examination of the subject , I shall confine my- self ...
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... motive in all our actions , Wol- laston's reasoning would prove clearly the absurdity of any concern about our memory . " Such a concern , " as Dr. Hutcheson observes , " no selfish being , who had the modelling of his own nature ...
... motive in all our actions , Wol- laston's reasoning would prove clearly the absurdity of any concern about our memory . " Such a concern , " as Dr. Hutcheson observes , " no selfish being , who had the modelling of his own nature ...
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Seite 247 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Seite 191 - 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...
Seite 335 - Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit, primusque per artem Movit agros curis acuens mortalia corda, Nee torpere gravi passus sua regna veterno.
Seite 189 - The generous Ashley* thine, the friend of man; Who scann'd his Nature with a brother's eye, His weakness prompt to shade, to raise his aim, To touch the finer movements of the mind, And with the moral beauty charm the heart.
Seite 182 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Seite 305 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion...
Seite 191 - Is aught so fair In all the dewy landscapes of the Spring, In the bright eye of Hesper or the Morn, In Nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair As virtuous Friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others...
Seite 60 - ... yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hard-hearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon. Grave natures, led by custom, and therefore constant, are commonly loving husbands, as was said of Ulysses, "Vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati.
Seite 49 - Tis not enough, your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.
Seite 123 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury : unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury ; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury...