The Map of Life, Conduct and CharacterLongmans, Green, 1899 - 328 pages |
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... pleasures and pains in spheres accessible to all 4. Importance and difficulty of realising our blessings while they last 21 Comparison and contrast Content not the quality of progressive societies The problem of balancing content and ...
... pleasures and pains in spheres accessible to all 4. Importance and difficulty of realising our blessings while they last 21 Comparison and contrast Content not the quality of progressive societies The problem of balancing content and ...
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... pleasures 225 Their tendency to enhance other pleasures . - Importance of specialisation . ་ 226 And of judicious selection 227 Education may act specially on the desires or on the will Modern education and tendencies of the former kind ...
... pleasures 225 Their tendency to enhance other pleasures . - Importance of specialisation . ་ 226 And of judicious selection 227 Education may act specially on the desires or on the will Modern education and tendencies of the former kind ...
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... pleasures PAGE 251 257 262 265 267 268 Advantages and disadvantages of a large very wealthy class • in a nation . Directions in which philanthropic expenditure may be best turned 272 • 276 CHAPTER XIV MARRIAGE Its importance and the ...
... pleasures PAGE 251 257 262 265 267 268 Advantages and disadvantages of a large very wealthy class • in a nation . Directions in which philanthropic expenditure may be best turned 272 • 276 CHAPTER XIV MARRIAGE Its importance and the ...
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... pleasure . The illusion of free will , he maintains , is only due to the conflict of our motives . Under many forms and disguises pleasure and pain have an absolute empire over conduct . The will is nothing more than the last and ...
... pleasure . The illusion of free will , he maintains , is only due to the conflict of our motives . Under many forms and disguises pleasure and pain have an absolute empire over conduct . The will is nothing more than the last and ...
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William Edward Hartpole Lecky. it any pleasure , and select at a given moment between alternate courses . They maintain that when various motives pass before the mind the mind retains a power of choosing and judging , of accepting and ...
William Edward Hartpole Lecky. it any pleasure , and select at a given moment between alternate courses . They maintain that when various motives pass before the mind the mind retains a power of choosing and judging , of accepting and ...
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Page 24 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 307 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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