Lectures on Moral Philosophy: Delivered Before the "Edinburgh Philosophical Society," and Reported for the "Edinburgh Chronicle."Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1836 - 183 pages |
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Page 29 - You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God;" laying before us two books or volumes to study, if we will be secured from error: first the Scriptures, revealing the will of God, and then the creatures expressing His power...
Page 20 - Now in the present state, all which we enjoy, and a great part of what we suffer, is put in our own 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.
Page 20 - 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, wilfulness, or even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please.
Page 88 - He that has none must make them, or be wretched. Cares are employments, and without employ The soul is on a rack, the rack of rest, To souls most adverse, action all their joy.
Page 43 - Providence did not design this world should be filled with murmurs and repinings, or that the heart of man should be involved in gloom and melancholy.
Page 58 - ... for their children. The New Testament confines divorce to the single case of infidelity in the wife. The question now occurs, What does the law of nature, written on our...
Page 72 - So that to send an uneducated child into the world is injurious to the rest of mankind ; it is little better than to turn out a mad dog, or a wild beast into the streets.
Page 111 - But their labor being guided by no efficient direction or superintendence, and there being no habitual supremacy of the moral and intellectual powers among them, animating each with a love of the public good, but the reverse, — the result was melancholy and speedy. Without in the least benefiting the operatives, the scheme ruined its philanthropic projectors, most of whom are now either in premature graves, or emigrants to distant lands, while every stone which they reared has been razed to the...
Page 157 - ... such bitter taunts and personal invectives, that blows generally ensued : this was the signal for universal uproar; the president's voice was unheeded and unheard ; the whole house arose, partisans of different antagonists mingled in the affray, when the ground was literally seen covered with combatants, kicking, biting, scratching, and exhibiting all the evolutions and manoeuvres of the old Pancratic contests.
Page 157 - England, were here transferred to the very floor of the senate. As soon as the president had proposed the subject for debate, and restored some degree of order from the confusion of tongues which followed, a system of crimination and recrimination invariably commenced by several speakers, accompanied with such furious gesticulations and hideous distortion of countenance, such bitter taunts and personal invectives, that blows generally ensued.