 To virtue, therefore, which is the right exercise of our moral powers, the character of man's chief good does belong: which will appear still more evident when we consider, that the hope of future felicity is the chief consolation of the present life,...  Elements of Moral Science - Strana 352autor/autoři: James Beattie - 1807 - 408 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Edward Young - 1852 - 528 str.
...Vulcan, lame, 995 Bids foul ideas, in their dark recess, And hot as hell (which kindled the black fires) chief good does belong, which will appear still more...which are sufficient to destroy all earthly happiness. 994. Paphian shop : Paplios is an ancient name of the island of Cyprus, •where Venus was worshipped... | |
 | Edward Young - 1856 - 536 str.
...Vulcan, lame, 995 Bids foul ideas, in their dark recess, And hot as hell (which kindled the black fires) chief good does belong, which will appear still more...vice, in the most prosperous condition, is subject to tne pangs of a guilty conscience, and to the dreadful anticipation of future punishment, which are... | |
 | Edward Young - 1856 - 556 str.
...Vulcan, lame, 995 Bids foul ideas, in their dark recess, And hot as hell (which kindled the black fires) chief good does belong, which •will appear still...vice, in the most prosperous condition, is subject to tne pangs of a guilty conscience, and to the dreadful anticipation of future punishment, which are... | |
 | Harvey L. Eads - 1879 - 246 str.
...attended. * * To virtue, therefore, which is the right exercise of our moral powers, the character of chief good does belong, which will appear still more...are sufficient to destroy all earthly happiness." This corroborates what I have said, and, coming, as it does, from one of your own number and class,... | |
 | 1882 - 584 str.
...attended. "To virtue, therefore, which is the right exercise of our moral powers, the character of chief good does belong, which will appear still more...are sufficient to destroy all earthly happiness." This corroborates what I have said, and, coming, as it does, from one of your own number and class,... | |
 | James Beattie - 2004 - 216 str.
...himself to them, the more respectable he becomes, and it is not possible for him to carry such attachment to excess: with disgust, or with pain, they are never...which are sufficient to destroy all earthly happiness. I am far from adopting, in its literal sense, that maxim of the poet, 'Virtue alone is happiness below'... | |
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