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Page xxv
... give any reafon for their approbation ; and alfo , that fome purfue it without knowing that it tends to their own private happiness ; nay even when it appears to be inconfiftent with and deftructive of their happiness . And that this is ...
... give any reafon for their approbation ; and alfo , that fome purfue it without knowing that it tends to their own private happiness ; nay even when it appears to be inconfiftent with and deftructive of their happiness . And that this is ...
Page xxix
... give any fa- tisfaction , ought to be fo general , as to be conforma- ble to that which all or moft men are fuppofed to have . And this general idea , I think , may be thus expreffed . Virtue is the conformity to a rule of life ...
... give any fa- tisfaction , ought to be fo general , as to be conforma- ble to that which all or moft men are fuppofed to have . And this general idea , I think , may be thus expreffed . Virtue is the conformity to a rule of life ...
Page xxxiii
... give fome account of our ap- probations and affections . SECT . III . Concerning Approbation and Affection . MAN is not only a fenfible creature ; not only ca- pable of pleafure and pain , but capable alfo of forefeeing this pleafure ...
... give fome account of our ap- probations and affections . SECT . III . Concerning Approbation and Affection . MAN is not only a fenfible creature ; not only ca- pable of pleafure and pain , but capable alfo of forefeeing this pleafure ...
Page xxxviii
... give pleasure or pain to the agent beloved or hated ) gratitude , anger , ( fometimes called by one name , refentment ) generofity , ambition , honour , fhame , envy , benevolence : and if there be any other , they are only , as thefe ...
... give pleasure or pain to the agent beloved or hated ) gratitude , anger , ( fometimes called by one name , refentment ) generofity , ambition , honour , fhame , envy , benevolence : and if there be any other , they are only , as thefe ...
Page xli
... give any fatisfactory account of their origin . And therefore thefe public affections , and this moral fenfe , are quite in- dependent on private happiness , and in reality act upon us as mere inftincts . Answer , The matter of fact ...
... give any fatisfactory account of their origin . And therefore thefe public affections , and this moral fenfe , are quite in- dependent on private happiness , and in reality act upon us as mere inftincts . Answer , The matter of fact ...
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Page 417 - And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 432 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 98 - Existence is a blessing to those beings only which are endowed with perception ; and is in a manner thrown away upon dead matter, any farther than as it is subservient to beings which are conscious of their existence.
Page 427 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page 130 - Labour or exercise ferments the humours, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigour, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Page xxxi - ... the consideration of these four sorts of obligation (which are the only ones) it is evident that a full and complete obligation which will extend to all cases, can only be that arising from the authority of God; because God only can in all cases make a man happy or miserable: and therefore, since we are always obliged to that conformity called virtue, it is evident that the immediate rule or criterion of it, is the will of God. The...
Page 179 - So that the idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other...
Page xxvi - ... whenever this end is not perceived, they are to be accounted for from the association of ideas and may properly enough be called habits.
Page 331 - ... but they surprise and come upon us from we know not what quarter. If they proceeded from the mobility of spirits, straggling out of order, and fortuitous affections of the brain, or were of the nature of dreams, why are they not as wild, incoherent, and extravagant as they are? Not to add, that the world has generally acknowledged, and therefore...
Page 83 - Had he only made one species of animals, none of the rest would have enjoyed the happiness of existence; he has, therefore, specified in his creation every degree of life, every capacity of being. The whole...