Rational Self-Love; or, a Philosophical and moral essay on the natural principles of happiness and virtue ... By L-. N-. [i.e. Laurence Nihell, Bishop of Kilfenora]. |
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Page 16 - Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot ; To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
Page 79 - Tis Pleafant, when the Seas are rough to ftand, *' And View another's Danger, fafe at Land : " Not 'caufe he's troubled ; but 'tis f-weet to fee " Thofe Cares and Fears, from which ourfelves are free.
Page 115 - I know, too, that the mere vulgar of mankind often stand in need of such a rectifying object as the gallows before their eyes. Yet I have no belief that any man of a liberal education, or common honesty, ever needed to have recourse to this idea in his mind, the better to restrain him from playing the knave.
Page 140 - ... than this bare recital is provided by Kaye but not much that we can be sure of, although it does appear likely that Mandeville was at any rate a reasonably successful physician and it is certain that he was a successful and very well known writer. It is also easy to believe from his writings that he was "neither a saint in his life nor a hermit in his diet.
Page 112 - ... Eyes. Yet I have no belief, that any Man of a liberal Education, or common Honefty, ever needed to have recourfe to this Idea in his Mind, the better to reftrain him from playing the Knave. And if A SAINT had no other Virtue than what was rais'd in him by the...
Page i - Self-love ; or, A Philosophical and Moral Essay on the Natural Principles of Happiness and Virtue. With Reflections on the Various Systems of Philosophers, Ancient and Modern, on this Subject. By LN [The Most Rev.
Page 123 - Mete *' or did but mine with a borrowed Splendor, " derived from the Influence of, that mighty '* Luminary . Thus, in like Manner, tho' *' the Beauty, Fitnefs, Truth, &c.
Page 139 - have attempted to give a general Picture of " the Human Species, they have all along ta...
Page 140 - fajie either in Arts or Morals^ he appears to have been incapable of it. — The noble Writer is known to have been of a Frame the very Reverfe of this: His Conftitution was neither more nor lefs oppofite to Dr.