Intellectual Sentiments, Explained by the Study of SensationsJoseph Booker, 1809 - 191 pàgines |
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Pàgina 15
... blessings diffused around us , perfection is the most invaluable . It is as it were the ensign of happiness , and there is a hidden delight accompanies whatever induces us to think we are pos- sessed of INTELLECTUAL SENTIMENTS. ...
... blessings diffused around us , perfection is the most invaluable . It is as it were the ensign of happiness , and there is a hidden delight accompanies whatever induces us to think we are pos- sessed of INTELLECTUAL SENTIMENTS. ...
Pàgina 16
... virtue , self directs it still . The principal end of all moral philo- sophy is to give us just sentiments apper- taining to this point . Perfection consists in the possession of such qualities of the 16 INTELLECTUAL.
... virtue , self directs it still . The principal end of all moral philo- sophy is to give us just sentiments apper- taining to this point . Perfection consists in the possession of such qualities of the 16 INTELLECTUAL.
Pàgina 17
... perfection in proportion as the body is less distempered , and is able to perform the motions assigned to it according as the mind is less deceived , and can with ease understand and set forth the beauty of truth . In fine , we become ...
... perfection in proportion as the body is less distempered , and is able to perform the motions assigned to it according as the mind is less deceived , and can with ease understand and set forth the beauty of truth . In fine , we become ...
Pàgina 18
... perfection that friendship borrows such immanent delight , though certain philosophers have ima- gined its origin to be derived from our impotence , without the aid of others , to obtain the necessaries of life . Yet if there is such a ...
... perfection that friendship borrows such immanent delight , though certain philosophers have ima- gined its origin to be derived from our impotence , without the aid of others , to obtain the necessaries of life . Yet if there is such a ...
Pàgina 19
... always debases us , because it flatters us , and we are content with re- ceiving from an external appearance of perfection an inward satisfaction , which can only flow from intrinsic excellence . Vain , deluded SENTIMENTS . 10.
... always debases us , because it flatters us , and we are content with re- ceiving from an external appearance of perfection an inward satisfaction , which can only flow from intrinsic excellence . Vain , deluded SENTIMENTS . 10.
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Pàgina 124 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day.
Pàgina 155 - Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
Pàgina 76 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Pàgina 134 - Tis from high life high characters are drawn : A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn ; A judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; Wise if a minister ; but if a king, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more every thing.
Pàgina 120 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Pàgina 123 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Pàgina 95 - Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days : Each want of happiness by hope supplied, And each vacuity of sense by pride : These build as fast as knowledge can destroy ; In folly's cup still laughs the bubble joy ; One prospect lost, another still we gain, And not a vanity is given in vain : E'en mean self-love becomes, by force divine, The scale to measure others...
Pàgina 99 - Painful preeminence ! yourself to view Above life's weakness, and its comforts too. Bring then these blessings to a strict account ; Make fair deductions ; see to what they 'mount...
Pàgina 31 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.