By attention and exercise it may be improved in every man. It prepares the mind for receiving the impressions of virtue; and. without it there can be no true politeness. Nothing is more odious, than that insensibility which wraps a man up in himself and... Elements of Moral Science - Stran 176avtor: James Beattie - 1790 - 688 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| 1790 - 820 strani
...without it there can be no true politenefs. Nothing is more, odious than that infenfibility, whieh wraps a man up in himfelf and his own concerns, and prevents bis being moved with either the joys or the forrows of another. This inhuman temper, however common,... | |
| James Beattie, Thomas Gray - 1809 - 414 strani
...no teue politeness. Nothing is more odious, than that insensibility which wraps a man up inhimself and his own concerns, and prevents his being moved with either the joys or the sorrows of another. TJiis inhuman temper,' however common, seems not.to be natural to the soul of man,... | |
| James Beattie, Thomas Gray - 1809 - 408 strani
...no true politeness. Nothing is more odious, than that insensibility which wraps a man up in himself and his own concerns, and prevents his being moved with either the joys or the sorrows of another. This inhuman temper, however common, seems not to be natural to the soul of man,... | |
| 1865 - 848 strani
...which are truly noble. NOTHING is more odious than that insensibility which wraps a man up in himself and his own concerns, and prevents his being moved with either the joys or sorrows of another. THE most useful lesson in the school of life, is that which teaches us to be content.... | |
| Charles Hole - 1871 - 298 strani
...be no true happiness. Nothing is more odious than that insensibility which wraps a man up in himself and his own concerns, and prevents his being moved with either the joys or sorrows of others. How important, then, is it that the young whose feelings are keen and buoyant, capable... | |
| James Comper Gray - 1871 - 442 strani
...true politeness. Nothing is more odious than that insensibility wh. wraps a man up in himself and bis own concerns, and prevents his being moved with either the joys or the sorrows of another."-/teaíí/e. a Ac. xiv. 7 : Ep. ii.8. Sick, affected with disease. A.-S. sioc;... | |
| Glasgow sabbath school union - 1873 - 598 strani
...in every man" — " nothing is more odious than that insensibility which wraps a man up in himself and his own concerns, and prevents his being moved with either the joys or the sorrows of another." For Christian workers, there are few, if, indeed, any, spheres of labour where... | |
| Christian life - 1874 - 446 strani
...no true politeness. Nothing is more odious than that insensibility which wraps a man up in himself and his own concerns, and prevents his being moved with either the joys or the sorrows of another. — BEATTIE. 3Sn merep ana trutlj tntquitg ii nurgett ; anls bn flje fear of t§e... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1874 - 348 strani
...no true politeness. Nothing is more odious than that insensibility which wraps a man up in himself and his own concerns, and prevents his being moved with either the joys or sorrows of another. This inhuman temper, however common, seems not to be natural to the soul of man,... | |
| Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 strani
...no true politeness. Nothing is more odious than that insensibility which wraps a man up in himself and his own concerns, and prevents his being moved with either the joys or the sorrows of another. — BEATTIE. We must not make too much of sympathy, as mere feeling. We do in things... | |
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