 ... whose multiplied necessities and artificial passions oblige him to reason at every step, and to calculate every action, is, too frequently, self-centred, cold, and indifferent; and he extracts the materials of individual gratification even from the...  Sketches of the Philosophy of Life - Seite 258von Sir Thomas Charles Morgan - 1819 - 466 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 258 Seiten
...at the hazard of life; while the creature of high-wrought civilization, whose multiplied necessities and artificial passions oblige him to reason at every step, and to caleulate every action, is, too frequently, self-centred, cold, and indifferent, and he extracts the... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 Seiten
...the hazard of life ; while the creature of high-wrought civilization, whose multiplied necessities and artificial passions oblige him to reason at every...frequently, self-centred, cold, and indifferent, and he extracti the materials of individual gratification even from the failure of friends, the misfortunes... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1880 - 392 Seiten
...the hazard of life ; while the creature of high-wrought civilisation, whose multiplied necessities and artificial passions oblige him to reason at every...disinterestedness is folly, and patriotism a pretence. — Sir C. Morgan. CCCCLXXI1I. IHE IDEAL PHILOSOPHY. — If you abstract your own perception of colours,... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1882 - 400 Seiten
...the hazard of life ; while the creature of high-wrought civilisation, whose multiplied necessities and artificial passions oblige him to reason at every...country, or the grave of his longest and most tried con• i nections. With such men disinterestedness is folly, and patriotism a pretence. — Sir C.... | |
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