How to Right a Wrong: The Ways and MeansT.F. Neely Pub., 1898 - 383 sivua |
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Sivu 346 - He who has nothing external that can divert him must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not; for who is pleased with what he is? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights...
Sivu 346 - 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.
Sivu 105 - In our own species, in which perhaps the assertion may be more questionable than in any other, the prepollency of good over evil, of health, for example, and ease, over pain and distress, is evinced by the very notice which calamities excite.
Sivu 380 - He knows enough for his argument : he knows the utility of the end ; he knows the subserviency and adaptation of the means to the end. These points being known, his ignorance of other points, his doubts concerning other points, affect not the certainty of his reasoning. The consciousness of knowing little, need not beget a distrust of that which he does know.
Sivu 28 - Learning is like a river, whose head being far in the land, is at first rising little and easily viewed ; but still as you go it gapeth with a wider bank, not without pleasure and delightful winding, while it is on both sides set with trees and the beauties of various flowers. But still the further you follow it the deep.er and the broader it is, till at last it inwaves itself in the unfathomed ocean.
Sivu 345 - If a tenth part of the felicities that have been enjoyed, the great actions that have been performed, the, .beneficent institutions that have been established, and the beautiful objects that have been seen, in that happy region, could...
Sivu 345 - The vulgar materials that constitute the actual economy of the world will rise up to its sight in fictitious forms, which it cannot disenchant into plain reality, nor will even suspect to be deceptive. It cannot go about with sober, rational inspection, and ascertain the nature and value of all things around it. Indeed, such a mind is not disposed to examine with any careful minuteness the real condition of things. It is content with ignorance, because environed with something more delicious than...
Sivu 344 - ... of reason and of virtue. If it b'e allowed to wander at discretion, through scenes of imagined wealth, ambition, frivolity, or pleasure it tends to withdraw the mind from the important pursuits of life, to weaken the habit of attention, and to impair the judgment. It' tends, in a most material manner, to prevent the due exercise of those nobler powers which are directed to the cultivation both of science and virtue.
Sivu 345 - ... imagination will accompany the mind into the most serious speculations, or rather musings, on the real world, and what is to be done in it, and expected ; as the image which the eye acquires from looking at any dazzling object still appears before it wherever it turns. The vulgar materials that constitute the actual economy of the world will rise up to its sight in fictitious forms, which it cannot disenchant into plain reality, nor will even suspect to be deceptive. It cannot go about with sober,...
Sivu 27 - Whatever is best is safest; lies out of the reach of human power ; can neither be given nor taken away. Such is this great and beautiful work of nature, the world. Such is the mind of man, which contemplates and admires the world whereof it makes the noblest part. These are inseparably ours, and as long as we remain in...