 The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed, that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves ; but the self-love of some men, inclines them to please others ; and the self-love...  Swiftiana ... - Page 153edited by - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...the cause of most actions, good or bod, may be resolved into the love of ourselves ; but the seltlove indifferent ; it is from the number of those actions, yet religion is allowed to be the highest instance of self-love, Anthony Henley's farmer dying... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1889 - 460 pages
...cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves ; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the...virtue and vice. Religion is the best motive of all actions, yet religion is allowed to be the highest instance of self-love. When the world has once begun... | |
 | 1893 - 386 pages
...the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-lore of some men inclines them to please others ; and the...virtue and vice. Religion is the best motive of all actions, yet religion is allowed to be the highest instance of self-love. Old men view best at a distance... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves ; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the...makes the great distinction between virtue and vice. — Swift. Offended self-love never forgives. — Viget. It is falling in love with our own mistaken... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1897 - 478 pages
...cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves ; but the se,lf-love of some men, inclines them to please others ; and...virtue and vice. Religion is the best motive of all actions, yet religion is allowed to be the highest instance of self-love. When the world has once begun... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 462 pages
...the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the...virtue and vice. Religion is the best motive of all actions, yet religion is allowed to be the highest instance of self-love. Old men view best at a distance... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 452 pages
...the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the...virtue and vice. Religion is the best motive of all actions, yet religion is allowed to be the highest instance of self-love. Old men view best at a distance... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 444 pages
...cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves ; but the self-love of some men, inclines them to please others ; and...virtue and vice. Religion is the best motive of all actions, yet religion is allowed to be the highest instance of self-love. When the world has once begun... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...Shakespeare. Most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves ; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the...the great distinction between virtue and vice.— Surifl. Offendedself-loveneverforgivee. — Vigfe. It is falling in love with our own mistaken ideas... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 pages
...the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men, inclines them to please others; and the...virtue and vice. Religion is the best motive of all actions, yet religion is allowed to be the highest instance of self-love. When the world has once begun... | |
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