Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes, Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a MagistrateHarper & Brothers, 1855 - Всего страниц: 343 |
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... actions ; that every fool is mad ; that the wise alone are wealthy and free ; and that every fool is a slave . The Paradoxes , indeed , seem to have been written as an exercise of rhetorical wit , rather than as a serious disquisition ...
... actions ; that every fool is mad ; that the wise alone are wealthy and free ; and that every fool is a slave . The Paradoxes , indeed , seem to have been written as an exercise of rhetorical wit , rather than as a serious disquisition ...
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... actions , and makes religion and morals alike to consist in passive conformity to the dogmas and laws of the reigning sovereign . Perhaps the best reply to this latter notion was given by Cicero him- self , in his treatise , " De ...
... actions , and makes religion and morals alike to consist in passive conformity to the dogmas and laws of the reigning sovereign . Perhaps the best reply to this latter notion was given by Cicero him- self , in his treatise , " De ...
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... actions as means , and their object as an end . All the re- lations of inanimate things to each other are undoubtedly observed as -much by the criminal as by the man of virtue . " Lord Shaftesbury , a little later , made a considerable ...
... actions as means , and their object as an end . All the re- lations of inanimate things to each other are undoubtedly observed as -much by the criminal as by the man of virtue . " Lord Shaftesbury , a little later , made a considerable ...
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... actions , as that which constitutes them virtuous , was set forth with the whole force of his genius and eloquence . How far Dr. Paley acquiesces in the principles of Hume , and how far , on the other hand , he may seem to have been a ...
... actions , as that which constitutes them virtuous , was set forth with the whole force of his genius and eloquence . How far Dr. Paley acquiesces in the principles of Hume , and how far , on the other hand , he may seem to have been a ...
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... actions , and have supported it by an unexampled array of pro- found and ingenious argument and eloquent illustration . A single re- conciling principle may be given in the words of Dugald Stewart : - " An . action may be said to be ...
... actions , and have supported it by an unexampled array of pro- found and ingenious argument and eloquent illustration . A single re- conciling principle may be given in the words of Dugald Stewart : - " An . action may be said to be ...
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Стр. 311 - You have condemn'd and noted Lucius Pella, For taking bribes here of the Sardians; Wherein my letters, praying on his side, Because I knew the man, were slighted off. BRU. You wrong'd yourself to write in such a case. CAS. In such a time as this it is not meet That every nice offence should bear his comment.
Стр. 258 - Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for my devotions: but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings, that they forget the story, and can only relate to our awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that that hath passed.
Стр. 113 - THERE is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic : a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Стр. 280 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
Стр. 258 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I...
Стр. 5 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Стр. 254 - There is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
Стр. 219 - He that would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old; and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young. In youth, he must lay up knowledge for his support, when his powers of acting shall forsake him; and in age forbear to animadvert with rigour on faults which experience only can correct.
Стр. 258 - Morpheus; and that those abstracted and ecstatic souls do walk about in their own corpse, as spirits with the bodies they assume, wherein they seem to hear, see, and feel, though indeed the organs are destitute of sense, and their natures of those faculties that should inform them.