Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 3John Grigg, 1824 - Philosophy |
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... earth . It is not the mere love of life , which is disgraceful in itself , but the cowardly love of it , which does not yield to nobler de- sires . Every wish which we can feel for objects that are apt to affect ourselves , has of ...
... earth . It is not the mere love of life , which is disgraceful in itself , but the cowardly love of it , which does not yield to nobler de- sires . Every wish which we can feel for objects that are apt to affect ourselves , has of ...
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... earth with all the profusion of his bounty , -gives to them a pleasure , which , if the proud and luxurious could purchase by the magnificence of their richest banquets , they would not be magnificent in vain . Cowper's Task , Book I. v ...
... earth with all the profusion of his bounty , -gives to them a pleasure , which , if the proud and luxurious could purchase by the magnificence of their richest banquets , they would not be magnificent in vain . Cowper's Task , Book I. v ...
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... earth mere- ly , which seems in some measure his own by birth , but the very ocean , that is to him like another world of beings of a different nature . Society averts from him the attack of diseases , —it miti- gates his suffering when ...
... earth mere- ly , which seems in some measure his own by birth , but the very ocean , that is to him like another world of beings of a different nature . Society averts from him the attack of diseases , —it miti- gates his suffering when ...
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... earth , there is one voice which animates the whole , a voice which , in every country and every time , and in all the changes of barbarism and civilization , still utters a truth , the first to which the heart has assented , and the ...
... earth , there is one voice which animates the whole , a voice which , in every country and every time , and in all the changes of barbarism and civilization , still utters a truth , the first to which the heart has assented , and the ...
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... earth among a few lordly masters , it neither forgot nor abandoned those who seemed to have been left out in the partition . These last , too , enjoy their share of all that it produces . In what constitutes the real happiness of hu man ...
... earth among a few lordly masters , it neither forgot nor abandoned those who seemed to have been left out in the partition . These last , too , enjoy their share of all that it produces . In what constitutes the real happiness of hu man ...
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Page 144 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 320 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Page 386 - Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Page 253 - IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn; and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap; reserving nothing for themselves but the chaff and the refuse; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest perhaps...
Page 375 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it, as I muse along.
Page 349 - ... bitter potion to a distempered state. Times, and occasions, and provocations, will teach their own lessons. The wise will determine from the gravity of the case ; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands ; the brave and bold from the love of honourable danger in a generous cause : but, with or without right, a revolution will be the very last resource of the thinking and the good. The third head of right, asserted...
Page 201 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 295 - THE MAN OF ROSS. ALL our praises why should lords engross ? Rise, honest Muse ! and sing the Man of Ross : Pleased Vaga echoes through her winding bounds, And rapid Severn hoarse applause resounds. Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost, Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with...
Page 383 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 80 - Just what you hear you have; and what's unknown The same, my lord, if Tully's or your own. All that we feel of it begins and ends In the small circle of our foes or friends; To all beside as much an empty shade...