... object. If once we abandon this distinction, language will want a term for a well-known and very common vice of the mind ; and, from a wasteful perversion of phrases, we must be reduced to speak of qualities most noble and most base by the very same... Natural History of Enthusiasm - Página 9por Isaac Taylor - 1829 - 311 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1829 - 876 páginas
...chosen object. If once we abandon thia distinction, language will want a term for a well-known and Vfery common vice of the mind ; and, from a wasteful perversion...Enthusiasm is not a term of measurement, but of quality." — Pp. 6, 7The vitiating quality is declared to be the transmulation of the emotions of the heart... | |
| 1829 - 760 páginas
...abandon this distinction, language will want a term for a well-known and very comN. s. No. 54. mon vice of the mind ; and, from a wasteful perversion...Enthusiasm is not a term of measurement, but of quality." — pp. G, 7. His notions of religious enthusiasm may be learned from the following passages. "The... | |
| 1829 - 930 páginas
...a wasteful perversion of phrases, we must be reduced to speak of qualities most noble and most hase by the very same designation. If the objects which...intensity of feeling that can alter the character of the emo'ion. Enthusiasm is not a term of measurement, but of quality." — Pp. 6, 7The vitiating quality... | |
| 1829 - 894 páginas
...qualities most noble and most base by the very same designation. If the objects which excite the ardor of the mind are substantial, and if the mode of pursuit...Enthusiasm is not a term of measurement, but of quality." We had marked several passages, as specimens of the beauty of style and cogency of reasoning lor which... | |
| 1829 - 598 páginas
...noble and most base by the very same designation. If the objects which excite the ardour of the mini are substantial, and if the mode of pursuit be truly...Enthusiasm is not a term of measurement, but of quality.' p. "]. Religious enthusiasm, then, is to be regarded as differing in kind from true piety, as disease... | |
| 1830 - 396 páginas
...qualities most noble and most base by the very same designation. If the objects which excite the ardor of the mind are substantial, and if the mode of pursuit...Enthusiasm is not a term of measurement, but of quality." We had marked several passages, as specimens of the beauty of style and cogency of reasoning for which... | |
| Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 páginas
...qualities most noble and most base by the very same designation. If the objects which excite the ardor of the mind are substantial, and if the mode of pursuit...Enthusiasm is not a term of measurement, but of quality. ," * Who, for instance, can suppose that there was less devotion of mind to his pursuit, less ardor... | |
| Isaac Taylor - 1853 - 320 páginas
...qualities most noble and most infirm by the very same designation. If the objects which excite the ardor of the mind are substantial, and if the mode of pursuit...that enthusiasm is the fault of infirm constitutions, a seeming exception must be made in behalf of a few high- tempered spirits, distinguished by their... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1829 - 610 páginas
...abandon this distinction, language will want a term for a well-known and very common vice of the mmd ; and, from a wasteful perversion of phrases, we must...Enthusiasm is not a term of measurement, but of quality.' p. 7Religions enthusiasm, then, is to be regarded as differing in kind from true piety, as disease... | |
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