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Page 427 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 439 - But ask not, to what doctors I apply? Sworn to no master, of no sect am I: As drives the storm, at any door I knock: And house with Montaigne now, or now with Locke.
Page 205 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Page 54 - ... siccis, mollia cum duris, sine pondere habentia pondus. Hanc deus et melior litem natura diremit.
Page xiv - If the poetess does not always command our unqualified approbation, we are at all times disposed to bend in reverence before the deep-hearted and highly accomplished woman — a woman, whose powers appear to us to extend over a wider and profounder range of thought and feeling, than ever before fell within the intellectual compass of any of the softer sex.
Page 149 - Nec sanctum magis, et mirum, carumque videtur. Carmina quin etiam divini pectoris ejus Vociferantur, et exponunt praeclara reperta; Ut vix humana videatur stirpe creatus.
Page 351 - But more important than any results, either moral or metaphysical, which have been brought to maturity by Plato, are the inexhaustible germs of latent wealth which his writings contain. Every time his pages are turned they throw forth new seeds of wisdom, new scintillations of thought, so teeming is the fertility, so irrepressible the fulness of his genius. All philosophy, speculative and practical, has been foreshadowed by his prophetic intelligence ; often dimly, but always so attractively as to...
Page 379 - ... for example, has health for its end. The art of shipbuilding .has a ship, and the art of war has victory, for its end. These are subordinate ends. But there is an ultimate end, an end in reference to which these, and all other subordinate ends, may be considered as means, a chief end or summum bonum which is desired for its own sake, and not for the sake of anything beyond it.
Page 388 - Again, from the same given circumstances, and by the same means used, all excellence is both produced and destroyed, for by harp-playing both the good and the bad harpers are formed ; and similarly of builders and all the rest, for by building well, men will become good builders, by building badly, bad ones ; in fact, if this had not been so there would have been no need of instructors, but all men would have been at once good or bad in their several arts without them. " So, too, is it with the virtues...
Page 328 - Finally, that the reason, in proportion as it learns to contemplate the perfect and eternal, desires the enjoyment of such contemplations in a more consummate degree, and cannot be fully satisfied except in the actual fruition of the perfect itself: — this seems not to contradict any received principle of psychology, or any known law of human nature. Yet these suppositions, taken together, constitute the famous THEORY OF IDEAS...