| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1774 - 520 pages
...admonifliing us of our duty, and requiring Sk. II. 1. 2. MORALIT Y. 255 quiring from us no exercifc of our faculties but attention merely. The celebrated...But fociety would be imperfect, if the moral fenfe ftopped here. There is no particular that tends more to complete fociety, than what is mentioned in... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1778 - 524 pages
...agreeable to him would have been the difcovery, that they are founded upon intuitive perception, flill more convincing and authoritative ! By one branch...ought to do, and what we ought not to do ; and by anotherbranch, what we may do, or leave undone. But fociety would be imperfect, if the moral fenfe... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1788 - 514 pages
...moral duties are fufceptible of demonftration : how agreeable to him would have been the difcovery, that they are founded upon intuitive perception, ftill...imperfect, .if the moral fenfe flopped here. There is a third branch that makes us accountable for our conduct to our fellow-creatures » and it will be... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1788 - 514 pages
...moral duties are fufceptible of demonftration : how agreeable to him would have been the difcovery, that they are founded upon intuitive perception, ftill...But fociety would be imperfect, if the moral fenfe ftopped here. There is a third branch that makes us accountable for our conduct to our fellow-creatures... | |
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1807 - 528 pages
...moral duties are fufceptible of demonftration : how agreeable to him would have been the difcovery, that they are founded upon intuitive perception, ftill...would be imperfect, if the moral fenfe flopped here. Threre is a third hranch that makes us accountable for our conduct to our fellow-creatures ; and it... | |
| Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 454 pages
...requiring from us no other exercise of our faculties than attention merely. By one branch of this sense, we are taught what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do ; by another, what we may do, or leave undone. But society would be imperfect, if the moral sense stopped... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1813 - 536 pages
...upon intuitive perception, still more convincing and authoritative ! By one branch of the moral sense, we are taught what we ought to do ; and what we ought not to do ; and by another branch, what fae may do, or leave undone. But society would be imperfect, if the moral sense stopped here. There... | |
| 1868 - 800 pages
...religion," said aunt Griiner. "We think differently, my dear. Thank God, we have got somebody to tell us what we ought to do and what we ought not to do." Linda was not strong enough to argue the question, or to remind her aunt that this somebody, too, might... | |
| Asa Burton - 1824 - 442 pages
...is generally agreed, that the office of conscience is to teach us what is right, and what is wrong ; what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do. By what acts of the mind, beside those called perceptions, can we determine what is right, or what... | |
| Asa Burton - 1824 - 424 pages
...is generally agreed, that the office of conscience is to teach us what is right, and what is wrong ; what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do. By what acts of the mind, beside those called perceptions, can we determine what is right, or what... | |
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