 If virtue be not estimable in itself, we can see nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a bargain.' But, in fact, repose is the poorest of all delusions ; the very act of recurring to self brings about us all those ills of self from which,...  Novels - Page 63by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1892Full view - About this book
 | John Leland - 1837 - 784 pages
...bespeaks little of real honesty or worth ; and that if virtue be not really estimable in itself, he can see nothing estimable in following it • for the sake of a bargain."* He asks, " how shall we deny that to serve God by compulsion, or for interest merely, is servile and... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1839 - 246 pages
...among much dross, has many particles of ore, * If it be not estim* Plato. t Plato. able in itself, I can see nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a bargain.' * " I looked round the world, and saw often virtue in rags, and vice in purple; the former conduces... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1842 - 380 pages
...life of ease , let us see what this vaunted ease really is. Tell me, is it not another name for ennuil This state of quiescence, this objectless, dreamless...nothing estimable in following it for the sake of u bargain.' But, in fact, repose is the poorest of all delusions; the very act of recurring to self,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1842 - 700 pages
...said with one who, among much dross, has many particles of ore, ' If it be not estimable in itself, I can see nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a bargain.'; - 1 looked round the world, and saw often virtue in rags, and vice in purple ; the former conduces... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1850 - 186 pages
...as well as a false philosophy. Why this eternal reference to self? Is self alone to be consulted Í Is even our happiness, did it truly consist in repose,...bargain.' But, in fact, repose is the poorest of all delusion? ; the very act of recurring to self, brings about us all those ills of self from which, in... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1859 - 578 pages
...consulting happiness/ this cant of living for ourselves, is but a mean as well as a false philosophy. \Vhy this eternal reference to self? Is self alone to be...nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a hargain.' But, in fact, repose is the poorest of all delusions* ; the very act of recurring to self,... | |
 | 1864 - 890 pages
...pronounces that God is just, righteous, and true." " If virtue be not really estimable in itself, I can see nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a bargain ;" and he complains of those who «' speak so much of the rewards and punishments, and so little of... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1871 - 538 pages
...honest practice bespeaks little of real honesty or worth If virtue be not really estimable in itself, I can see nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a bargain.' (vol. I. p. 97.) . . . ' The saving of souls is now the heroic passion of exalted wits/ (vol, I. p.... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1871 - 536 pages
...practice bespeaks little of real honesty or worth. , .' . . If virtue be not reallv estimable in itself, I can see nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a bargain.' (vol. I. p. 97.) . . . ' The saving of souls is now the heroic passion of exalted wits.' (vol. I. p.... | |
 | James McCosh - 1875 - 506 pages
...pronounces that God is just, righteous, and true." " If virtue be not really estimable in itself, I can see nothing estimable in following it for the sake of a bargain ; " and he complains of those who "speak so much of the rewards and punishments, and so little of the... | |
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