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... virtue and prudence , promoting their happiness , giving them precepts by which they might best conduct themselves . In one view we find him discharging the manifold relations of a son , a brother , a husband , and a father ; relations ...
... virtue and prudence , promoting their happiness , giving them precepts by which they might best conduct themselves . In one view we find him discharging the manifold relations of a son , a brother , a husband , and a father ; relations ...
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... virtues . Hence it was that Epicurus concluded that virtue consists in prudence . The system of Epicurus besides derives its plausibility from its too great simplicity . Nature we know always produces the most different and varying ...
... virtues . Hence it was that Epicurus concluded that virtue consists in prudence . The system of Epicurus besides derives its plausibility from its too great simplicity . Nature we know always produces the most different and varying ...
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... virtue , and the reasons or ends for which they were pursued . Plato considered virtue to consist in propriety , in the harmony of all the passions . Epicurus in prudence , in the proper pursuit of the means of our own welfare . Plato ...
... virtue , and the reasons or ends for which they were pursued . Plato considered virtue to consist in propriety , in the harmony of all the passions . Epicurus in prudence , in the proper pursuit of the means of our own welfare . Plato ...
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... virtue or the quality which recommends virtue to us . Epicurus maintained that bodily pain and pleasure were the sole ultimate objects of desire ; but the others considered the desire of know- ledge , which has no reference to the body ...
... virtue or the quality which recommends virtue to us . Epicurus maintained that bodily pain and pleasure were the sole ultimate objects of desire ; but the others considered the desire of know- ledge , which has no reference to the body ...
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... virtue and vice to procure certain objects , which are agreeable in the one and disagreeable in the other case . is from this particular view or aspect of nature , that the system of Epicurus derive its probability . The system of ...
... virtue and vice to procure certain objects , which are agreeable in the one and disagreeable in the other case . is from this particular view or aspect of nature , that the system of Epicurus derive its probability . The system of ...
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Page 3 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise, Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Page 54 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 5 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 6 - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
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Page 37 - There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces; and that cure is freedom. When a prisoner first leaves his cell he cannot bear the light of day ; he is unable to discriminate colors or recognize faces.
Page 29 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.