 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - 1714 - 382 pagine
...endeavour to demonflrate. GOOD HUMOUR is not only the befl Security againfl Enthufta,fm, but the befl Foundation of Piety and true Religion : For if right Thoughts and worthy Apprehenfions of the Supreme Being, are fundamental to all true W orfhip and Adoration ; 'tis more... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 610 pagine
...Butler's ' cool and reasonable concern ' for oneself, and that goodhumour which, according to Shaftesbury, is not only ' the best Security against Enthusiasm...but the best Foundation of Piety and true Religion,' were enough for her, as they were for her contemporaries. For her, as for most of them, religion and... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pagine
...success on the gravest and most important of all subjects. " Good humor," says Lord Shaftesbury, " is not only the best security against enthusiasm,...shall never miscarry in this respect, except through ill humor only. Nothing beside ill humor, can bring a man to think seriously, that the world is governed... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 428 pagine
...success on the gravest and most important of all subjects. " Good humour," says Lord Shaftesbury, " is not only the best security against enthusiasm,...through ill-humour only. Nothing beside ill-humour can bring a man to think seriously, that the world is governed by any devilish or malicious power.... | |
 | 1864 - 890 pagine
..." recommend wisdom and virtue in the way of pleasantry and mirth," and tells us that " good humour is not only the best security against enthusiasm,...but the best foundation of piety and true religion." It does not appear very clearly what is the nature of the piety and religion which he would recommend.... | |
 | James McCosh - 1875 - 506 pagine
...would " recommend wisdom and virtue in the way of pleasantry and mirth," and tells us that " good-humor is not only the best security against enthusiasm,...but the best foundation of piety and true religion." It does not appear very clearly what is the nature of the piety and religion which he would recommend.... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1876 - 496 pagine
...' good humour,' not a scoffing humour, which he professes to desire. ' Good humour,' he tells us, ' is not only the best • security against enthusiasm,...but the best foundation of piety and true religion.' ' Good humour, in fact, is the disposition natural to the philosopher when enthusiasm has been finally... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1879 - 344 pagine
...like little children. — H. MoRE, Grand Mystery of Godliness, b. viii. c. ISHunger, 1 39 Good ITumour is not only the best security against enthusiasm,...true worship and adoration, 'tis more than probable we shall never miscarry in this respect except through III Humour only. — SHAFTESRURY, Worhs, 1727,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1879 - 332 pagine
...from Chapman's Homer, quoted below. Good Humour is not only the best security against enthu*. siasm, but the best foundation of piety and true religion....true worship and adoration,' tis more than probable we shall never miscarry in this respect except through III Humour only. — SHAFTESBURY, Worki, 1727,... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1882 - 290 pagine
...aright, especially in matters of religion and morality, we must be in a good humour. " Good Humour is not only the best security against Enthusiasm,...but the best foundation of Piety and True Religion." "Nothing beside ill humour, either natural or forced, can bring a man to think seriously that the world... | |
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Good-humour is not only the best security against enthusiasm, but the best foundation of piety and true religion ; for if right thoughts and worthy apprehensions of the Supreme Being are fundamental to all true worship and adoration, 'tis more than probable... 
