The Map of Life, Conduct and CharacterLongmans, Green, 1899 - 328 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 74
Page ix
... Political crime . - The Mendacity in finance The sane view of human character . 222 25 22 % 72 72 74 75 77 79 80 82 We learn with age to value restraints , to expect moderately and value compromise 82 33 CHAPTER VIII Moral compromise a ...
... Political crime . - The Mendacity in finance The sane view of human character . 222 25 22 % 72 72 74 75 77 79 80 82 We learn with age to value restraints , to expect moderately and value compromise 82 33 CHAPTER VIII Moral compromise a ...
Page xi
... politics Necessity of party • Lines of conduct adopted when such differences arise Parliamentary obstruction • · Moral ... political trusteeship Legitimate and illegitimate time - serving 127 · 128 129 131 Education questions · • · 132 ...
... politics Necessity of party • Lines of conduct adopted when such differences arise Parliamentary obstruction • · Moral ... political trusteeship Legitimate and illegitimate time - serving 127 · 128 129 131 Education questions · • · 132 ...
Page xii
William Edward Hartpole Lecky. Governor Eyre The Jameson raid How statesmen should deal with political misdeeds The standard of international morals - questions connected with it . The ethics of annexation . Political morals and public ...
William Edward Hartpole Lecky. Governor Eyre The Jameson raid How statesmen should deal with political misdeeds The standard of international morals - questions connected with it . The ethics of annexation . Political morals and public ...
Page 26
... Political Economy rests upon the importance of creating wants and desires as a stimulus to exertion . There are countries , especially in Southern climates , where the wants of men are very few , and where as long as those wants are ...
... Political Economy rests upon the importance of creating wants and desires as a stimulus to exertion . There are countries , especially in Southern climates , where the wants of men are very few , and where as long as those wants are ...
Page 34
... political or religious enterprises . Character plays a larger part than intellect in the happiness of life , and the cultivation of the unselfish part of our nature is not only one of the first lessons of morals but also of wisdom ...
... political or religious enterprises . Character plays a larger part than intellect in the happiness of life , and the cultivation of the unselfish part of our nature is not only one of the first lessons of morals but also of wisdom ...
Contents
171 | |
172 | |
177 | |
185 | |
219 | |
225 | |
226 | |
231 | |
46 | |
48 | |
55 | |
61 | |
83 | |
101 | |
111 | |
127 | |
138 | |
145 | |
154 | |
167 | |
237 | |
243 | |
250 | |
272 | |
280 | |
295 | |
306 | |
318 | |
324 | |
4 | |
14 | |
26 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absolutely acts ambition ANDREW LANG Anglican attained become believe Bishop Butler bring calamities Catholic character charities Church Church of England circumstances civilisation Council of Constance coup d'état crimes criminal Crown 8vo danger death degree desire disease duty elements England English enjoyment evil exaggeration feeling give grave habits happiness honour human nature ideal Illustrations industry influence intellectual interests JAMESON RAID Johannesburg judge judgment kind least legislation less lives Louis Napoleon marriage measure member of Parliament ment mind modern moral motives nations never object painful Parliament parliamentary party passion pleasure political position probably public opinion question realise recognised religious self-sacrifice selfish Sepoy society soldiers sometimes standard suffering tastes temptations tendency things thought tion true truth uncon universal suffrage unselfish vice virtue vols vote whole wholly
Popular passages
Page 16 - ROGET.— THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES. Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and assist in Literary Composition. By PETER MARK ROGET, MD, FRS Recomposed throughout, enlarged and improved, partly from the Author's Notes, and with a full Index, by the Author's Son, JOHN LEWIS ROGET. Crown 8vo, 9s.
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.
Page 31 - He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, —most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.
Page 13 - RECOLLECTIONS. By LORD RIBBLESDALE, Master of the Buckhounds, 1892-95. With Introductory Chapter on the Hereditary Mastership by E. BURROWS. With 24 Plates and 35 Illustrations in the Text.
Page 10 - A TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF THE Ox ; being a Manual of Bovine Pathology. Especially adapted for the use of Veterinary Practitioners and Students. With 2 Plates and 117 Woodcuts. 8vo., 151.
Page 9 - Cr. 8vo.,3s. 6d. THE ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES : or, the Bow of Ulysses. With 9 Illustrations. Crown 8vo., 2s. boards, 2s. 6d. cloth. Grove. — SEVENTY-ONE DAYS
Page 103 - ... warmth, and appearing to be clearly of one opinion when you are in reality of another opinion, does not such dissimulation impair one's honesty? Is there not some danger that a lawyer may put on the same mask in common life, in the intercourse with his friends?
Page 14 - CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON, AND OTHER WORKS ON THE THEORY OF ETHICS.
Page 5 - Cabinet Edition. ENGLAND. 7 vols. Crown 8vo., 6s. each. IRELAND. 5 vols. Crown 8vo., 6s. each. HISTORY OF EUROPEAN MORALS FROM AUGUSTUS TO CHARLEMAGNE. 2 vols. Crown 8vo., 16s.