An Abridgment of The Light of Nature PursuedJ. Johnson, 1807 - 529 sivua |
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Sivu viii - Amidst all the abstruseness of the most subtle disquisitions, it is as familiar as Montaigne, and as wild and entertaining as John Buncle. To the ingenuity and closeness of the metaphysician, he unites the practical knowledge of the man of the world, and the utmost sprightliness, and even levity of imagination. He is the only philosopher who appears to have had his senses always about him, or to have possessed the enviable faculty of attending at the same time to what was passing in his own mind,...
Sivu lii - I have found in this writer more original thinking and observation, upon the several subjects that he has taken in hand, than in any other, not to say, than in all others put together.
Sivu 30 - ... tale of violence and treachery, in which neither the motives nor the characters of the actors sufficiently justify them. The Italian too, by making Iphigenia an unwilling captive, takes away from Cymon the only excuse he could have had. The three charming lines with which Dryden's poem opens, Old as I am, for lady's love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet...
Sivu 214 - ... for us to claim the sole use of them. Man has no farther concern with this earth than a few fathoms under his feet ; was, then, the whole solid globe made only for a foundation to support the slender shell he treads upon ? Do the magnetic effluvia course incessantly over land and sea, only to turn here and there a mariner's compass ? Are those immense bodies, the fixed stars, hung up for nothing but to twinkle in our eyes by night, or to find employment for a few astronomers ? Surely, he must...
Sivu 464 - But it will probably be asked, would I then extinguish every spark of vanity in the world, all thirst of fame, of splendour, of magnificence, of show, all desire of excelling or distinguishing one's self from the common herd? What must become of the public service, of sciences, arts, commerce, manufactures ? The business of life must stagnate. Nobody would spend his youth in fatigues and dangers to qualify himself for becoming a general or admiral. Nobody would study, and toil, and struggle, and...
Sivu 345 - Man was not made for the sabbath, but the sabbath for man'; He had pointed to the fulfilment of the law in the Gospel.
Sivu 85 - As to the choice of a horse, our rider has no concern with that, but must content himself with such as nature and education have put into his hands : but since the spirit of the beast depends much upon the usage given him, every prudent man will endeavour to proportion that spirit to his own strength and skill in horsemanship ; and according as he finds himself a good or bad rider, will wish to have his horse sober or mettlesome. For strong passions work wonders where there is a stronger force of...
Sivu xxii - The notion that our motives are blind mechanical impulses, if it proves anything, proves, that instead of being always governed by self-love, there is in reality no such thing. So that, as far as this argument goes, it is no less absurd to trace our love of others to self-love, than it would be to account for a man's love of reading from his fondness for bread and butter, or to say that his having an ear for music arose from his relish for port wine. It is therefore necessary to suppose, that when...
Sivu xvi - ... that of those who only believe what they understand, and have already accounted for. The one is the philosophy of consciousness, the other that of experiment ; the one may be called the intellectual, the other the material philosophy. The one rests chiefly on the general notions and conscious perceptions of mankind, and endeavours to discover what the mind is, .by looking into the mind itself; the other denies the existence of every thing in the mind, of which it cannot find some rubbishly archetype,...
Sivu 338 - I can just remember," says a theologian of the last century, " when the women first taught me to say my prayers, I used to have the idea of a venerable old man, of a composed benign countenance, with his own hair, clad in a morning gown of a gravecoloured flowered damask, sitting in an elbow chair...