There is a contentment of happiness which is incompatible with excessive suffering, and a contentment of resignation which acquiesces in the severest dispensations of Providence.
But the pleasure sought by reason and self-love respectively is not the same pleasure, and so incompatible were the two pleasures in his estimation that he calls one, ver.
Complete virtue, and complete vice, says Pope, are both hostile to self-interest, a plain confession that his selfish system was incompatible with thorough virtue.
Happiness is the proper effect of pure goodness, and if the junction of perfect happiness and perfect goodness was incompatible with disinterestedness, the celestial spirits would be more selfish than men.
He goes on to ascribe an influence to self-love which isincompatible with his second system, or theory of the ruling passion.
He thought it incompatible with the liberty and security of the people, and therefore hoped the House would agree to a short limitation.
He imagined it might be considered by their constituents as incompatible with the spirit of the constitution, and dangerous to republican principles, to pass such a law unlimited in its duration.
He thought it best to establish some precedent, rather than oblige members who may wish to resign to have recourse to some familiar method, by accepting of some appointment in the State which is incompatible with a seat.
I have no idea of instructions, unless they are obeyed; a discretional power is incompatible with them.
But he saw too, ambition in that heart's deep recess, and knew that its dictates, unopposed for years, were totally incompatible with such a love.
We have elsewhere said, that Sir Henry had arrived at middle age, before one feeling incompatible with his ambitious thoughts arose.
The study of the laws was not then a laborious occupation, requiring the drudgery of a whole life to finish it, andincompatible with every other study or profession.
Never advancing beyond corporeal conditions, they confined themselves to form, and sacrificed the charm of mystery, which is incompatible with very definite conception.
The two first are incompatible with true religion, and the third ought always to be suspected.
Prudence--but not the acuteness which is sometimes confused with prudence--is incompatible with incontinence, which is least curable when the outcome of weakness.
Mr. Aylett was not wantonly or openly unkind to his ward, and ungenerous persecution was utterly incompatible with the temper and habits of his lady wife, but between them they had contrived to make the girl's life very miserable.
He must not suspect me of weak and wicked clinging to the phantoms of my youth; must believe that I do not harbor a regret or wish incompatible with my duty as his wife.
The political philosophers of the present day do not generally accept the theory held by our fathers, and it has been shown in these pages to be unsound and incompatible with the essential nature of government.
He took advantage of his official station to vent his spleen and gratify his petulance in a variety of ways incompatible with the courtesy of a gentleman.
In their reply, they followed the example of the Legislature of New York, by declining to furnish funds for the purposes specified, "being incompatiblewith their own honor and interest, and their duty to their constituents.
The officer crossed the river before morning, and communicated the matter to Sir Henry Clinton, but the latter instantly rejected the expedient as incompatiblewith honor and military principle.
The physical and the mental operations form curiously incompatible groups.
To discuss all the ways in which one experience may function as the knower of another, would be incompatible with the limits of this essay.
All sorts of adjectives qualify our thoughts which appear incompatiblewith consciousness, being as such a bare diaphaneity.
The grant of incompatible privileges to rival communities was a source of profit to the mediaeval monarchy; the crown secured payment in hand for the charters, and reaped the benefit of the inevitable dispute that followed (Nos.
By grants of incompatible charters the crown obtained fees from two sets of petitioners, and also costs from the subsequent litigation.
That is perfectly true, but most of these definitions areincompatible with the motion of a rigid figure, which in the theorem of Lie is supposed possible.
The equality and the inequality deduced from experience would beincompatible with the two equalities deduced from the postulate.
And luckily, delightfulness is not incompatible with greatness, willing soever as men may be in their present imperfect state to set the power to subjugate above the power to please.
The poetic laws of association are by no means incompatible with the more ordinary laws; are by no means such as must have their course, even though a deliberate purpose require their suspension.
It would be no very difficult task to extend the inquiry to his comedies; and to show why Falstaff, Shallow, Sir Hugh Evans, and the rest, are equally incompatible with stage representation.
Bowne: "Pure arbitrariness and pure necessity are alike incompatible with reason.
Freedom of choice, within this limit, is by no means incompatible with complete bondage of the will in spiritual things.
These representations of sin as a principle or state of the soul are incompatiblewith the definition of it as a mere act.
That previous certainty of any given moral act is incompatible with its freedom.
Yes, my dear; his nature was the same, but he was strong enough to restrain his nature, and wise enough to know that his magnificence was incompatible with ordinary interests.
But it has always been held that the Board of Trade is not incompatible with the Peerage.
He had won for himself by his own aptitudes and his own industry one special position in the empire,--and that position, and that alone, was incompatible with the rank which he was obliged to assume!
This had been his chief occupation for a little while, and he found it wholly incompatible with his health.
Their tastes and occupations were incompatible with mine.
To maintain myself by the labour of my hands, to perform any toilsome or prescribed task, was incompatible with my nature.
The grief which overwhelmed the unhappy parent was of that outrageous and desperate kind which is wholly incompatible with thinking.
In the same History he points out, as Marlowe had done in talk, how incompatible was such a phenomenon as the mature civilization of ancient Egypt in the days of Abraham with the orthodox chronology.
A large maritime commerce requires a spirit of enterprise and resolute activity altogether incompatible with despotic government.
The withholding of such fact seven days from the War Department would be as incompatible with military duty as the giving it seven days before its existence, is irreconcilable with the common perceptions of mankind.
The Cherokees however appear to have rejected a proposition which, to them, appeared incompatible with the civilization of that tribe; they evidently felt deep sympathy for their brethren, the Seminoles, as well as for the Exiles.
The fancies with which Jonson closes are pretty; but they are false, for they are really incompatible with deep feeling: the Greek directness never loses from sight the dead child; it sees only that and the father's sorrow.
The primitive conditions that preserve simplicity are apparently incompatible with technical perfection, which is a late-born child of literature and the creation of matured taste, long experiment, and patient work.
Popular tradition, indeed, gave his wife credit for turning his energies towards the off-throwing of this same Mongol yoke, which was incompatible with the new ideas of princely dignity.
