Remarks on The Fable of the BeesPrinted at the University Press for D. & A. Macmillan, 1844 - 130 pàgines |
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actions amongst animal answer apology argument assert Atheists auricula Bayle Bees begot upon pride believe best religion blood and spirits bodily called cerned cheat Christians complexion confess Conservatism consider creatures Deism Deist desperate love divine doctrine doubt duty enquiry esteem eternal evil excellence F. D. MAURICE Fable false fancy feel flattery begot freethinker habit happiness hive honest honour hope human nature immortality implies infidelity irreligion Jews less libertines ligion living love of flattery Mandeville's maxims mind moral virtue moralists ness never notions noun substantive numbers object offspring which flattery opinion origin of moral pagans passions perfect philosophers pleasure political offspring pretend principle of reason prove question rational reader religious righteousness Sadducees seems self-denial sense shew shewn society soul speak suppose teach tell temper things thought tion true tural vice virtuous weak WILLIAM LAW words worship wrong
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Pàgina 7 - And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever.
Pàgina 81 - In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began...
Pàgina 15 - ... the nearer we search into human nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the moral virtues are the political offspring which flattery begot upon pride.
Pàgina 4 - ... that what we call evil in this world, moral as well as natural, is the grand principle that makes us sociable creatures, the solid basis, the life and support of all trades and employments without exception ; that there we must look for the true origin of all arts and sciences ; and that the moment evil ceases the society must be spoiled, if not totally destroyed.
Pàgina 15 - They thoroughly examined all the strength and frailties of our nature, and, observing that none were either so savage as not to be charmed with praise, or so despicable as patiently to bear contempt, justly concluded that flattery must be the most powerful argument that could be used to human creatures.
Pàgina 104 - Laws and government are to the political bodies of civil societies what the vital spirits and life itself are to the natural bodies of animated creatures...
Pàgina 122 - ... no species of animals is without the curb of government, less capable of agreeing long together in multitudes than that of man...
Pàgina 104 - Eyes; so they that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not in his desire of Company, Good nature, Pity, Affability, and other Graces of a fair Outside; but that his vilest and most hateful Qualities are the most necessary Accomplishments to fit him for the largest, and, according to the World, the happiest and most flourishing Societies.
Pàgina 128 - What you say in commendation of a whole town is received with pleasure by all the inhabitants : speak in commendation of letters in general, and every man of learning will think himself in particular obliged to you. You may safely praise the employment a man is of, or the country he was born in, because...
Pàgina 128 - ... imposed upon, to enlarge, though much against their conscience, upon the honour, fair dealing, and integrity of the family, country, or sometimes the profession of him they suspect; because they know that men often will change their resolution, and act against their inclination, that they may have the pleasure of continuing to appear in the opinion of some what they are conscious not to be in reality. Thus sagacious moralists draw men like angels, in hopes that the pride at least of some will...