Bible of Reason Pt. 1, Or, Scriptures of Ancient MoralistsWright and Owen, 1831 - 264 pages |
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Bible of Reason PT. 1, Or, Scriptures of Ancient Moralists Benjamin F Powell Aucun aperçu disponible - 2015 |
Bible of Reason Pt. 1, Or, Scriptures of Ancient Moralists Benjamin F. Powell Aucun aperçu disponible - 2019 |
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able acquire actions advantage adversity affected ascer attainment avarice avoid become better body cause character Cicero cleave asunder conduct conform consider consists contempt dæmon dangerous death DEMOCRITUS derived desires despise DIOGENES LAERTIUS disposition duty endeavours enemies enjoy enjoyment Epicurus errors esteem eternal evil exercise existence false friends fancied faults favour fear felicity fool fortune friends friendship habit happen happy happy secret honour human ignorance indolence indulgence infinite injury judgment justice knowledge laws live LUCRETIUS mankind manners means merit mind misfortunes moral nature necessary never notions object occasion opinions ourselves pain passions person philosophy Plato pleasure PLUTARCH possess preserve principles prosperity prudent Pythagoras racter reason regard render respect retributive justice riches satiety sense shame Socrates speak spect suffering superstition tain temper thing thirty tyrants thou thyself tion truth vice virtue virtuous vulgar wants wicked wisdom wise
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Page 158 - I've been From all I've heard— from all I've seen? What know I more that's worth the knowing ? What have I done that's worth the doing ? What have I sought that I should ' shun? What duties have I left undone ? Or into what new follies run? These self-inquiries are the road, That leads to virtue and to God.
Page 249 - Convince the world that you're devout and true ; Be just in all you say, and all you do ; Whatever be your birth, you're sure to be A peer of the first magnitude to me.
Page 26 - Do you not see, therefore, how from the productions of nature, and the useful inventions of men, have arisen fictitious and imaginary Deities; which have been the foundation of false opinions, pernicious errors, and wretched superstitions ? For we know how the different forms of the Gods, their ages, apparel, ornaments, their...
Page 247 - The man resolv'd and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries ; The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles.
Page 235 - Virtue alone is a sufficient foundation for a happy life. Virtue consists, not in a vain ostentation of learning, or an idle display of words, but in a steady course of right conduct. Wisdom and virtue are the same. A wise man will always be contented with his condition, and will live rather according to the precepts of virtue, than according to the laws or customs of his country. Wisdom is a secure and impregnable fortress; virtue, armor which cannot be taken away.
Page 154 - And lodges, where it lights, in man or beast; Or hunts without, till ready limbs it find, And actuates those according to their kind; From tenement to tenement is...
Page 247 - If you preserve a firm and equal mind, *Tis .here, 'tis there, and every where. From my oa>» Apartment, July 24. THIS afternoon I went to visit a gentleman of my acquaintance at Mile-end ; and passing through Stepney church-yard, I could not forbear entertaining myself with the inscriptions on the tombs and graves. Among others, I observed one with this notable memorial...
Page 154 - ... for the advantages of fortune, a few, and indeed but a few, who are not desirous of money nor ambitious of fame, are sufficiently gratified to be spectators of the wonder, the hurry, and the magnificence of the scene.
Page 73 - Do nothing shameful though you are alone; revere yourself more than all other men. A man must either be good or seem to be so. Every country is open...
Page 238 - ... the ground of experience, the existence of a self-determining power in man, and hence inferred that all things did not happen, as the stoics maintained, in a necessary series of causes and effects, and consequently, that it is impossible for the gods to predict events dependent on the will of man. As the foundation of morals, he taught, that the ultimate end of life is the enjoyment of those things, towards which we are directed by the principles of nature. Such...