The Elements of Moral ScienceCooke and Company, 1835 - 448 עמודים "This book presents to the public a new treatise upon moral science and moral philosophy. Being designed for the purposes of instruction, its aim is, to be simple, clear, and purely didactic. I have rarely gone into extended discussion, but have contented myself with the attempt to state the moral law, and the reason of it, in as few and as comprehensive terms as possible"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved) |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 6-10 מתוך 51
עמוד 27
... the rela- tions are perceived , it can never be produced by any view of the consequences which would arise to the universe from exercising it . 6. This relation , and its consequent obligation , involves DERIVE OUR NOTION , & c . 27.
... the rela- tions are perceived , it can never be produced by any view of the consequences which would arise to the universe from exercising it . 6. This relation , and its consequent obligation , involves DERIVE OUR NOTION , & c . 27.
עמוד 30
... exercise to his Creator . If the obligation to the love of God , can really arise from any thing , more ultimate than the essential rela- tion which he sustains to us , why may not this more ulti- mate motive be something else , as well ...
... exercise to his Creator . If the obligation to the love of God , can really arise from any thing , more ultimate than the essential rela- tion which he sustains to us , why may not this more ulti- mate motive be something else , as well ...
עמוד 64
... exercise of the benevolent affections , a man be- comes more and more capacious of virtue , capable of higher and more disinterested and more self - denying acts of mercy , until he becomes an enthusiast in goodness , loving to do good ...
... exercise of the benevolent affections , a man be- comes more and more capacious of virtue , capable of higher and more disinterested and more self - denying acts of mercy , until he becomes an enthusiast in goodness , loving to do good ...
עמוד 75
... exercise certain affections towards other beings , and to act towards them , in a manner corresponding to those affections . Thus , we are taught , in the Scriptures , that the relation in which we stand to Deity , involves the ...
... exercise certain affections towards other beings , and to act towards them , in a manner corresponding to those affections . Thus , we are taught , in the Scriptures , that the relation in which we stand to Deity , involves the ...
עמוד 87
... exercise it , nor that he was not responsible for the whole amount of that exercise of it . Since , if he have dwarfed his own powers , he is responsible for the result . And , conversely , if God requires this whole amount of virtue ...
... exercise it , nor that he was not responsible for the whole amount of that exercise of it . Since , if he have dwarfed his own powers , he is responsible for the result . And , conversely , if God requires this whole amount of virtue ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
action adultery affection amount of happiness arise asserted become benevolence bound BROWN UNIVERSITY CHAPTER character child civil society command concubinage condition conscience consequences consider constitution contract course of conduct created Creator crime cultivation derived desire duty evident evil exercise existence fact faculty feeling FRANCIS WAYLAND gratification greatest amount guilty Hence human impulse Inasmuch individual inflict injury innocent intellectual intended interfere knowledge labor law of chastity liberty limit manifest manifestly manner marriage means of happiness mode moral character moral constitution moral law moral obligation moral quality motives nations natural religion neighbor obedience obey object observed Old Testament ourselves pain parent party passion person pleasure prayer precept present principle produce punishment reason relation remarked render respect result revelation right of property Sabbath Scriptures self-love slavery spect suppose teach tendency thing tion truth universal unless vidual violation virtue whole wicked wrong
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 162 - Clouds and darkness are round about him : Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
עמוד 181 - In it thou shalt do no manner of work ; thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it.
עמוד 333 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
עמוד 351 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
עמוד 54 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
עמוד 93 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
עמוד x - Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
עמוד 171 - Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone ? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him...
עמוד 404 - I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
עמוד 76 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not : if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.