Moral essays in praise of virtue1821 |
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advantage affliction Almighty amidst animals appear ASPASIO attention bear beautiful behold beneficence blessing character charity cheerfulness children of men Christian comfort consider CONSOLA corrupted creation creatures dark Deity delight devotion distress Divine duty earth effects endeavour enjoy enjoyment evil evil eye existence father feel folly fortune friends furnished gentle give gratitude habits happiness heart heaven holy spirit honour house of mourning human idle indolence infinite inhabitants insect kind knows labour lence live look lute mankind manners melancholy mense ment mercy mind mirth misery misfortunes nature ness nister object omniscience ourselves passions perfect pleasing pleasures possess present principle proper prospect Providence racters rejoice religion render scene season sentiments sloth society Socrates soever sorrow soul spirit spleen stars suffer superior Supreme temper thee things thou thought tion trust truth vice virtue virtuous whole wisdom youth
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Seite 96 - ... as his father, and the highest order of spirits as his brethren, may, in another respect, say to " corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Seite 52 - If we delay till to-morrow what ought to be done to-day, we overcharge the morrow with a burthen which belongs not to it.
Seite 89 - This sun, with all its attendant planets, is but a very little part of the grand machine of the universe : every star, though in appearance no bigger than the diamond that glitters upon a lady's ring, is really a vast globe, like the sun in size and in glory ; no less spacious, no less luminous, than the radiant source of day. So that every star is not barely a world, but the centre of a magnificent system ; has a retinue of worlds, irradiated...
Seite 64 - When Pittacus, after the death of his brother, who had left him a good estate, was offered a great sum of money by the king of Lydia, he thanked him for his kindness, but told him he had already more by half than he knew what to do with. In short, content is equivalent to wealth, and luxury to poverty; or, to give the thought a more agreeable turn, ' Content is natural wealth,' says Socrates; to which I shall add, 'Luxury is artificial poverty.
Seite 48 - If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from man to his Maker ? The Supreme Being does not only confer upon us those bounties which proceed more immediately from his hand, but even those benefits which are conveyed to us by others. Every blessing we enjoy, by what means soever it may be derived upon us, is the gift of HIM who is the great Author of good, and the Father of mercies.
Seite 44 - Were the sun which enlightens this part of the creation, with all the host of planetary worlds that move about him, utterly extinguished and annihilated, they would not be missed more than a grain of sand upon the sea-shore.
Seite 44 - In the same manner, when I considered that infinite host of stars, or, to speak more philosophically, of suns which were then shining upon me, with those innumerable sets of planets or worlds which were moving round their respective suns; when I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above this which we discovered, and these still enlightened by a superior firmament of luminaries, which are planted at so great a distance, that they may appear to...
Seite 61 - This virtue does indeed produce, in some measure, all those effects which the alchymist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone ; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing, by banishing the desire of them. If it cannot remove the disquietudes arising out of a man's mind, body, or. fortune, it makes him easy under them.
Seite 134 - I think the being of a God is so little to be doubted, that it is almost the only truth we are sure of, and such a truth as we meet with in every object, in every occurrence, and in every thought.
Seite 45 - To return, therefore, to my first thought, I could not but look upon myself with secret horror, as a being that was not worth the smallest regard of one who had so great a work under his care and superintendency. I was afraid of being overlooked amidst the immensity of nature, and lost among that infinite variety of creatures, which in all probability swarm through all these immeasurable regions of matter.