Moral Philosophy; Or, The Duties of Man Considered in His Individual, Social, and Domestic CapacitiesMaclachlan, Stewart, & Company, 1846 - 116 páginas |
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Moral Philosophy; Or, The Duties of Man Considered in His Individual ... George Combe Vista completa - 1876 |
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Página 12 - I know not that we have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And by prudence and. care we may, for the most part, pass our days in tolerable ease and quiet ; or, on the contrary, we may, by rashness, ungoverned passion, willfulness, or even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please.
Página 3 - It is from considering the relations which the several appetites and passions in the inward frame have to each other, and, above all, the supremacy of reflection or conscience, that we get the idea of the system or constitution of human nature.
Página 3 - But that is not a complete account of man's nature. Somewhat further must be brought in to give us an adequate notion of it; ^namely, that one of those principles of action, conscience or reflection, compared with the rest as they all stand...
Página 114 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Página 12 - Now, in the present state, all which we enjoy, and a great part of what we suffer, is put in our men power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our Nature with capacities of foreseeing these consequences.
Página 3 - ... allow no more to this superior principle or part of our nature, than to other parts ; to let it govern and guide only occasionally in common with the rest, as its turn happens to come, from the temper and circumstances one happens to be in ; this is not to act conformably to the constitution of man. Neither can any human creature be said to act conformably to his constitution of nature, unless he allows to that superior principle the absolute authority which is due to it.
Página 3 - The generality of mankind also obey their instincts and principles, all of them ; those propensions we call good, as well as the bad, according to the same rules, namely, the constitution of their body, and the external circumstances which they are in.
Página 12 - ... may, by rashness, ungoverned passion, wilfulness, or even, by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please. And many do please to make themselves extremely miserable,, ie to do what they know beforehand will render them so. They follow those ways, the fruit of which they know, by instruction, example, experience, will be disgrace, and poverty, and sickness, and untimely death. This every one observes to be the general course of things ; though it is to be allowed, we cannot find...