A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education, Volumen2

Helvétius

Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1810

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Of the understanding and of talents	7

The man of nature cannot but be cruel	20

Of the happy use that might be made in public edu	30

Of the encomiums paid by M Rousseau to igno	39

What motives could induce M Rousseau to become	45

The cultivation of the arts and sciences in a	55

Ignorance does not secure the fidelity of the subject	79

Of the variety and simplicity requisite in all works	238

whence	248

Of the impressions of the arts of amenity on the opu	257

Of the power of idleness	265

Of the remote utility of my principles page	270

SECTION IX	277

Of the luxury of pleasure	291

The publication of a truth is fatal to him only by whom	304

Of luxury and temperance	85

Of the division of interests among the citizens pro	100

Of the too unequal partition of the national wealth	106

Causes of the too great inequality in the fortunes	109

Of the productive principles of virtue in those	116

Of the several principles of action in nations	123

SECTION VII	144

What sort of religion would be useful	154

Of the government of the Jesuits page	162

Of atrocious enterpizes undertaken from a love	168

Jansenism alone could destroy the Jesuits	179

SECTION VIII	198

Of the causes of the unhappiness of almost all nations	205

Of disquietude	213

Of the more or less difficult acquisition of pleasures	219

Of the sublime page	229

The promulgation of truth can never produce	310

That there is no form of government to which the knowledge of it	317

We owe the truth to the people	326

That interest makes us esteem in ourselves even	342

Interest persuades the great that they are of a diffe	351

Of the means employed by the church to bring	367

Of the time when the church will renew its pre	373

Of the means of restraining ecclesiastical ambition	383

SECTION	402

On the education of princes	408

CHAP X Every important reformation in the moral part of edu	443

OF THE PRINCIPAL QUESTIONS TREATED OF IN THIS WORK	452

Of the advantages of a public over a domestic educa	462

Of the accusations of materialism and impiety and	480

Of the impossibility for an intelligent moralist to es	486

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agreeable ambition arts bad education become cause CHAP church citizens clergy consequently contradictions contrary corporeal sensibility corruption crimes desire despotism discontent disgust doubtless effect effeminacy Emilius empire enemy equally error esteem evil excite favour fear felicity form of government France glory happiness honours Horatius Cocles human ideas idleness idler ignorance indifference inhabitants instruction interest Jansenists Jesuits king labour lastly laws legislation less liberty ligion luxury Lycurgus magistrates mankind manner marriage means ment mind misery monarch monk morality nation nature NOTES ON SECTION object opinion oppose pain panegyrist passions philosophers pleasure pope Portugal pretend priest prince principles produce proved punishment racter reason Recapitulation regard regicide religion religious render respect riches Rousseau says sensations sentiment slaves society sort sovereign Spartans stupid subjects treated sublime suppose talents tence thing tion Trajan truth tyrant understanding unequal vices virtue virtuous wealth

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Página 13 - He'd rather choose that I should die Than his prediction prove a lie : Not one foretells I shall recover, But all agree to give me over. Yet should some neighbour feel a pain Just in the parts where I complain, How many a message would he send ! What hearty prayers that I should mend...‎

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Página 232 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...‎

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Página 207 - Thee, too, my Paridel ! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness.‎

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Página 230 - Troy's turrets totter on the rocking plain ; And the toss'd navies beat the heaving main. Deep in the dismal regions of the dead, Th' infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful ev'n to gods. Such war th' immortals wage; such horrors rend The world's vast concave, when the gods contend.‎

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Página 324 - The press therefore should be free. The magistrate who prevents it, opposes all improvement in morality and politics ; he sins against his country*; he choaks the very seed of those happy ideas which the liberty of the press would produce : and who can estimate that loss?‎

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Página 347 - NOBLES and heralds, by your leave, Here lie the bones of Matthew Prior; He was the son of Adam and Eve — Let Nassau or Bourbon go higher.‎

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Página 230 - Far as a shepherd from some point on high, O'er the wide main extends his boundless eye ; Through such a space of air, with thundering sound, At every leap the immortal coursers bound : Troy now they reach'd and touch'd those banks divine, Where silver Simois and Scamander join.‎

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Página 329 - Error, dangerous in itself, is still more so by propagation : one produces many. Every man compares, more or less, his ideas together. If he adopt a false idea, that, united with others, produces such as are necessarily false, which, combining again with all those that his memory contains, give to all of them a greater or less tinge of falsehood.‎

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Página 29 - If you could do nothing and allow nothing to be done ; if you could bring your pupil sound and robust to the age of twelve years without his being able to distinguish his right hand from his left — from your very first lessons the eyes of his understanding would be open to reason.‎

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Información bibliográfica

Título	A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education, Volumen2 A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education, Helvétius Collections spéciales
Autor	Helvétius
Traducido por	William Hooper
Editor	Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1810
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Michigan
Digitalizado	14 Mayo 2008

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