A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education, Volumen1Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1810 - 510 páginas |
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... justice say so much in their own favour . To some readers this work will appear to be written with great boldness . There are periods . in every country when the word prudent bears the same signification with vile ; and when those ...
... justice say so much in their own favour . To some readers this work will appear to be written with great boldness . There are periods . in every country when the word prudent bears the same signification with vile ; and when those ...
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... justice , ......... ...... 290 293 301 CHAP . VIII . Of justice considered in the man of nature , ... 302 CHAP . XI . Of justice considered in polished man and nations , 306 CHAP . X. Individuals , like nations , esteem justice solely ...
... justice , ......... ...... 290 293 301 CHAP . VIII . Of justice considered in the man of nature , ... 302 CHAP . XI . Of justice considered in polished man and nations , 306 CHAP . X. Individuals , like nations , esteem justice solely ...
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... justice , to riches , and glory , that the temporal power owes its warriors , its magistrates , its merchants , and men of letters ; if it be by the commerce of its towns , the va- lour of its troops , the equity of its senate , and the ...
... justice , to riches , and glory , that the temporal power owes its warriors , its magistrates , its merchants , and men of letters ; if it be by the commerce of its towns , the va- lour of its troops , the equity of its senate , and the ...
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... justice and humility , when they declared themselves the distri- butors of the kingdoms of America , over which they had no sort of right ? When by a line of demarka- Selfishness of Popery . tion , they divided that part tion 52 ...
... justice and humility , when they declared themselves the distri- butors of the kingdoms of America , over which they had no sort of right ? When by a line of demarka- Selfishness of Popery . tion , they divided that part tion 52 ...
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... justice ? Ridi- culous ceremonies and observances . So that Machiavel in his Discourses on Livy , attributes the excessive iniquity of the Italians to the falsehood and contradictions in the moral precepts of the Catholic religion . 32 ...
... justice ? Ridi- culous ceremonies and observances . So that Machiavel in his Discourses on Livy , attributes the excessive iniquity of the Italians to the falsehood and contradictions in the moral precepts of the Catholic religion . 32 ...
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Términos y frases comunes
action animals atheist attention become Brennus Catholic cause Caveirac chance CHAP character church citizens clear idea clergy consequently contrary crime Descartes desire despotic discoveries effect envy equal aptitude esteem excite fact faculty false favour fear force France genius glory greater or less greatest habit happiness heaven honours human ibid ideas of virtue ignorance illustrious indifferent inhabitants instruction interest intolerance Jansenist Jesuits judge judgment justice laws liberty love of power mankind manner Marshal Luxembourg matter memory ment metaphysics mind minister monks Montesquieu morality nations nature never NOTES ON SECTION objects observation opinion organisation Pagan pain passions perceive perfection persecuted philosopher Plato pleasure Plutarch pope Portugal priests prince principles produce prove punishment regard religion render riches Rousseau sensations senses sentiment signification Sorbonne sort soul stupid superiority suppose Synesius talents theologians tion truth understanding virtuous vizirs Voltaire weak word
Pasajes populares
Página 287 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six; It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit!
Página 350 - Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain...
Página 95 - The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy, have consequences very important, and of a long duration. It is with these first impressions, as with a river, whose waters we can easily turn, by different canals, in quite opposite courses, so that from the insensible direction the stream receives at its source, it takes different directions, and at last arrives at places far distant from each other ; and with the same facility we may, I think, turn the minds of children to what...
Página 151 - Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Página 215 - What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more.
Página 373 - To limit the press is to insult the nation ; to prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Página 96 - ... of a celestial origin. Minds that are stupid and incapable of science, are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena : minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain.
Página 274 - Experience then proves that the character and spirit of a people change with the form of government ; and that a different government gives by-turns, to the same nation, a character noble or base, firm or fickle, courageous or cowardly.
Página 137 - ... the one quits the hut, and the other the den of his parents. The eagle, in like manner, drives away her young ones from the nest, the moment they have sufficient strength to dart upon their prey, and live without her aid. The bond that attaches children to their parents, and parents to their children, is less strong than is commonly imagined. A too great strength in this bond would be even fatal to societies. The...
Página 126 - Corporal sensibility is therefore the sole mover of man, [and] he is consequently susceptible . . . but of two sorts of pleasures and pains, the one are present bodily pains and pleasures, the other are the pains and pleasures of foresight or memory.