| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1774 - 522 pagina’s
...of God within us ; conftantly admonifliing us of our duty, and requiring quiring from us no exercife of our faculties but attention merely. The celebrated...But fociety would be imperfect, if the moral fenfe flopped here. There is no particular that tends more to complete fociety, than what is mentioned in... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1779 - 570 pagina’s
...moral duties are fufceptible of demonftration ; how agreeable to him would have beea the difcovery, that they are founded upon intuitive perception,'...imperfect, if the moral fenfe ftopped here. There \sa third branch that m^kes us accountable for our conduct to our fellow-creatures ; and it will be... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1788 - 514 pagina’s
...moral duties are fufceptible of demonftration : how agreeable to him would have been the difcovery, that they are founded upon intuitive perception, ftill...imperfect, if the moral fenfe ftopped here. There is a third branch that makes us accountable for our conduct to our fellow-creatures ; and it will be made... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1788 - 514 pagina’s
...moral duties are fufceptible of demonftration : how agreeable to him would have been the difcovery, that they are founded upon intuitive perception, ftill...But fociety would be imperfect, .if the moral fenfe flopped here. There is a third branch that makes us accountable for our conduct to our fellow-creatures... | |
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1807 - 528 pagina’s
...moral duties are fufceptible of demonftration : how agreeable to him would have been the difcovery, that they are founded upon intuitive perception, ftill...But fociety would be imperfect, if the moral fenfe flopped here. Threre is a third hranch that makes us accountable for our conduct to our fellow-creatures... | |
| Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 454 pagina’s
...requiring from us no other exercise of our faculties than attention merely. By one branch of this sense, we are taught what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do ; by another, what we may do, or leave undone. But society would be imperfect, if the moral sense stopped... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1813 - 536 pagina’s
...upon intuitive perception, still more convincing and authoritative ! By one branch of the moral sense, we are taught what we ought to do ; and what we ought not to do ; and by another branch, what fae may do, or leave undone. But society would be imperfect, if the moral sense stopped here. There... | |
| 1868 - 800 pagina’s
...religion," said aunt Griiner. "We think differently, my dear. Thank God, we have got somebody to tell us what we ought to do and what we ought not to do." Linda was not strong enough to argue the question, or to remind her aunt that this somebody, too, might... | |
| Asa Burton - 1824 - 424 pagina’s
...is generally agreed, that the office of conscience is to teach us what is right, and what is wrong ; what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do. By what acts of the mind, beside those called perceptions, can we determine what is right, or what... | |
| Asa Burton - 1824 - 442 pagina’s
...is generally agreed, that the office of conscience is to teach us what is right, and what is wrong ; what we ought to do, and what we ought not to do. By what acts of the mind, beside those called perceptions, can we determine what is right, or what... | |
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