The Passions: Or, Mind and MatterJ. and D. A. Darling, 1848 - 464 pages |
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... man has a right to do what he likes with his own . " The essential difference that exists between self- love and selfishness is , that self - love may inspire the most benevolent and generous disposition , while selfishness is incapable ...
... man has a right to do what he likes with his own . " The essential difference that exists between self- love and selfishness is , that self - love may inspire the most benevolent and generous disposition , while selfishness is incapable ...
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admirably affections ambition amongst animal appear appetites arise association of ideas Atheism attribute beauty become Ben Jonson bilious blood body brain called Cicero condition considered constitute danger desire diseases divine doubt Dugald Stewart emotions endeavour enjoyments evil excitement existence eyes fancy fear feel French Revolution frequently friendship gratification happiness heart hereditary hereditary diseases human ideas impressionability impulse individuals indulge influence insanity instinctive intellectual jealousy labour lative laws less libertinism lover Madame de Staël mankind ment mental faculties mind misery monomania moral morbid nature nervous notions object observed obtain opinion organs pain passions Pausanias person Petrarch philosopher physiologists pleasure Plutarch poet poor possess predisposition pride principles of action produce propensities pursuit race rarely reason religion render revenge rienced seek self-love sensations sense sensorium sentiment shew sidered society soul species superiority Supreme Intelligence temperament tion unfrequently vanity violent virtue woman wretched
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Page 441 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Page 435 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Page 389 - In men we various ruling passions find ; In women two almost divide the kind ; Those only fix'd, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
Page 337 - You may observe, that, amongst all the great and worthy persons, (whereof the memory remaineth, either ancient or recent,) there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love ; which shows that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion.
Page 82 - The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow.
Page 57 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note. The bounding steed you pompously bestride, Shares with his lord the pleasure and the pride. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain? The birds of heav'n shall vindicate their grain.
Page 431 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 119 - Men are but Children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain ; And yet the Soul, shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing ; But, like a Mole in Earth...
Page 82 - To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight too much in silent speculation.
Page 202 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...