First Principles of Moral Science: A Course of Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge

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Macmillan, 1873 - 320 ページ
 

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74 ページ - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
239 ページ - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
22 ページ - To do good to others ; to sacrifice for their benefit your own wishes; to love your neighbour as yourself; to forgive your enemies ; to restrain your passions ; to honour your parents; to respect those who are set over you : these, and a few others, are the sole essentials of morals; but they have been known for thousands of years, and not one jot or tittle has been added to them by all the sermons, homilies, and text-books which moralists and theologians have been able to produce.
201 ページ - He is the Rock, his work is perfect : for all his ways are judgment : a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
138 ページ - Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, And make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God, And a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth : The strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it; And his hands formed the dry land.
188 ページ - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
120 ページ - When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder : Then did he see it, and declare it ; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom ; And to depart from evil is understanding.
188 ページ - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
151 ページ - For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty : and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
47 ページ - The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flower, but not in this soil...

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