History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, כרך 1D. Appleton and Company, 1870 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
according action affections ancient appear beauty become believed causes centuries character Christians Church Cicero civilisation condition continually death desire direct distinct Divine doctrine duty emperor empire especially evil example existence extreme fact favour feeling followed give governed Greek habits hand happiness Hist human ideas imagination important influence intellectual interest Italy kind later less lives mankind Marcus Aurelius master means mind miracles moral moralists motive nature never noticed notion object observed opinion origin Pagan pain passion perfect period persecution persons philosophy pleasure political position possible principles probably produced proved question reason regarded religion religious remarkable represented Roman Rome says Seneca sense simply slaves society sometimes spirit Stoics suffering theory things thought tion traced true universal utilitarian vice virtue whole writers
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 61 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
עמוד 8 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
עמוד 49 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
עמוד 14 - And from this account of obligation it follows, that we can be obliged to nothing, but what we ourselves are to gain or lose something by ; for nothing else can be a ' violent motive ' to us. As we should not be obliged to obey the laws, or the magistrate, unless rewards or punishments, pleasure or pain...
עמוד 16 - ... till he returned. Now, in what, you will ask, does the difference consist? Inasmuch, as according to our account of the matter, both in the one case and the other, in acts of duty as well as acts of prudence, we consider solely what we shall gain or lose by...
עמוד 462 - HARDY (CAPT. C.)— FOREST LIFE IN ACADIE ; and Sketches of Sport and Natural History in the Lower Provinces of the Canadian Dominion.
עמוד 16 - That men should keep their compacts is certainly a great and undeniable rule in morality; but yet, if a Christian, who has the view of happiness and misery in another life, be asked why a man must keep his word, he will give this as a reason: "Because God, who has the power of eternal life and death, requires it of us.
עמוד 10 - ... appeareth more probability that the same may happen to us ; for the evil that happeneth to an innocent man may happen to every man. But when we...
עמוד 91 - All that can be said is, that there remains a presumption in favour of those conditions of life, in which men generally appear most cheerful and contented. For though the apparent happiness of mankind be not always a true measure of their real happiness, it is the best measure we have.
עמוד 387 - They shall lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover," had been pronounced, there was a pause ; and one of the sick was brought up to the King.