Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806Harper & Brothers, 1850 - 391 páginas |
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Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution ... Sydney Smith Visualização integral - 1850 |
Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution ... Sydney Smith Visualização integral - 1850 |
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action Adam Smith admiration agreeable animals appears Aristotle asso association attention beautiful benevolence Bishop Berkeley bodily body Carneades cause certainly child Cicero color common conceive connected consider danger degree Descartes desire diminished discover doctrine Dugald Stewart effect emotion Epicurus evil excite existence fact faculties fear feeling give grief habit happiness human mind humor ideas imagination imitation immediately incongruity instance instinct knowledge language learned lecture live Lochaber Locke Lord Bacon Malebranche mankind manner means ment Moral Philosophy MUSLIN Natural Philosophy nature never notion novelty objects observe opinions original pain particular passed passion perceive perfect person Plato pleasure present principles produce Pyrrho reason relation relation of ideas resemblance respect ridiculous sensation sense sort species sublime superior suppose surprise talents taste thing thought tion truth understanding virtue whole witty word York Tribune young
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Página 188 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 116 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Página 164 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Página 117 - Wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors: a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
Página 194 - And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise, His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he heaven and earth defied, Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful Muse, Soft pity to infuse; He sung Darius...
Página 164 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe...
Página 315 - Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place.
Página 205 - Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate* pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion...
Página 219 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the Whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 209 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?