Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 92
... from the needs of the character . The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem , -how to detach the sensual sweet , the sensual strong , the sensual bright , & c . , from the moral 92 ESSAY III .
... from the needs of the character . The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem , -how to detach the sensual sweet , the sensual strong , the sensual bright , & c . , from the moral 92 ESSAY III .
Page 93
... moral deep , the moral fair ; that is , again , to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless ; to get a one end , without an other end . The soul says , Eat ; the body would feast . The soul says ...
... moral deep , the moral fair ; that is , again , to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless ; to get a one end , without an other end . The soul says , Eat ; the body would feast . The soul says ...
Page 95
... moral aim . The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics ; and it would seem impossible for any fable to be invented and get any currency which was not moral . Aurora forgot to ask youth for her lover , and though Tithonus is immortal ...
... moral aim . The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics ; and it would seem impossible for any fable to be invented and get any currency which was not moral . Aurora forgot to ask youth for her lover , and though Tithonus is immortal ...
Page 102
... cheat , the defaulter , the gambler , cannot extort the knowledga of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative . The law of nature is , Do the thing , and you shall 102 ESSAY III .
... cheat , the defaulter , the gambler , cannot extort the knowledga of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative . The law of nature is , Do the thing , and you shall 102 ESSAY III .
Page 119
... moral nature is vitiated by any interference of our will . People represent virtue as a struggle , and take to themselves great airs up- on their attainments , and the question is everywhere vexed , when a noble nature is commended ...
... moral nature is vitiated by any interference of our will . People represent virtue as a struggle , and take to themselves great airs up- on their attainments , and the question is everywhere vexed , when a noble nature is commended ...
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