 Celibacy, fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude, and the whole train of monkish virtues ; for what reason are they everywhere rejected by men of sense, but because they serve to no manner of purpose ; neither advance...  Addresses to Young Men - Seite 260von James Fordyce - 1777Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 448 Seiten
...reason are they every where rejected by men of sense, but because they serve to no manner of purpose; neither advance a man's fortune in the world, nor render him a more valuable member of society; neither qualify him for the entertainment of company, nor increase his power of self-enjoyment?... | |
 | Dallas Willard - 2009 - 292 Seiten
...reason are they everywhere rejected by men of sense, but because they serve to no manner of purpose; neither advance a man's fortune in the world, nor render him a more valuable member of society; neither qualify him for the entertainment of company, nor increase his power of self-enjoyment?... | |
 | John Hedley Brooke - 1991 - 450 Seiten
...what reason are they everywhere rejected by men of sense, but because they serve no manner of purpose; neither advance a man's fortune in the world, nor render him a more valuable member of society." One wonders how he would have reacted to the alternative view that contemplation could focus... | |
 | Mark R. Schwehn - 2005 - 160 Seiten
...reason are they everywhere rejected by men of sense but because they serve to no manner and purpose; neither advance a man's fortune in the world, nor render him a more valuable member of society; neither qualify him for the entertainment of company, nor increase his power of self-enjoyment?... | |
 | Philip Koch - 1994 - 400 Seiten
...reason are they everywhere rejected by men of sense, but because they serve to no manner of purpose; neither advance a man's fortune in the world, nor render him a more valuable member of society, neither qualify him for the entertainment of company, nor increase his power of self-enjoyment?... | |
 | Don Garrett Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Utah - 1996 - 289 Seiten
...reason are they everywhere rejected by men of sense, but because they serve to no manner of purpose; neither advance a man's fortune in the world, nor render him a more valuable member of society: neither qualify him for the entertainment of company, nor increase his power of self-enjoyment?... | |
 | David Hume - 1998 - 396 Seiten
...reason are they every where rejected by men of sense, but because they serve to no manner of purpose; neither advance a man's fortune in the world, nor render him a more valuable member of society; neither qualify him for the entertainment of company, nor encrease his power of self-enjoyment?... | |
 | Anne Jaap Jacobson - 2010 - 340 Seiten
...neither useful nor agreeable."6 Hume observes that the monkish virtues "serve no matter of purpose; neither advance a man's fortune in the world, nor render him a more valuable member of society; neither qualify him for the entertainment of company, nor increase his power of self-enjoyment.... | |
 | Stephen Miller - 2001 - 226 Seiten
...profoundly antisocial. "Men of sense," he says, reject them "because they serve to no manner of purpose, neither advance a man's fortune in the world, nor render him a more valuable member of society; neither qualify him for the entertainment of company nor increase his power of self-enjoyment.... | |
 | Ruth F. Chadwick, Doris Schroeder - 2002 - 384 Seiten
...reason are they everywhere rejected by men of sense, but because they serve to no manner of purpose; neither advance a man's fortune in the world, nor render him a more valuable member of society; neither qualify him for entertainment of company, nor increase his power of self-enjoyment?... | |
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