History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2)Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
Philosophy
History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2)
Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
Ethics; Europe -- Moral conditions
Gregory of Nyssa, St., his eulogy of virginity, ii. 322
Gregory of Tours, manner in which he regarded events, ii. 240-242, 261,
277
Grotesque, or eccentric, pleasure derived from the, compared with that
from beauty, i. 85
Gundebald, his murders approved of by his bishop, ii. 237
Gunpowder, importance of the invention of, i. 126
Guy, Brother, his society for protection and education of children, ii.
33, and _note_
Hadrian, the Emperor, his view of suicide, i. 219.
Gives Euphrates permission to destroy himself, 218, _note_.
His laws respecting slaves, 307.
His leniency towards Christianity, 438.
His benevolence, ii. 77
Hair, false, opinions of the Fathers on, ii. 149
Hall, Robert, on theological Utilitarianism, i. 15 _note_
“Happiness, the greatest, for the greatest number,” theory of the, i. 3.
The sole end of human actions, according to the Utilitarians, 8, _note_.
The best man seldom the happiest, 69.
Mental compared with physical happiness, 87.
Influence of health and temperament on happiness, 88, and _note_
Hartley, his doctrine of association, i. 22.
Coleridge’s admiration for him, 28, _note_.
On animal food, 48, _note_.
His attempt to evade the conclusion to which his view leads, quoted, 67,
_note_.
His definition of conscience, 82
Hegesias, the orator of death, i. 215
Heliogabalus, his blasphemous orgies, i. 260
Hell, monkish visions of, ii. 221 and _note_.
Glimpses of the infernal regions furnished by the “Dialogues” of St.
Gregory, 221.
Modern publications on this subject, 223, _note_
Helvétius, on the origin of human actions, i. 8, _note_.
On customs of the people of Congo and Siam, 102, _note_.
Compared with Aulus Gellius, 313
Herbert, of Cherbury, Lord, his profession of the doctrine of innate
ideas, i. 123
Hercules, meaning of, according to the Stoics, i. 163
Hereford, Nicholas of, his opposition to indiscriminate alms, ii. 96
Heresy, punishment of death for, i. 98; ii. 40
Hermits. _See_ Asceticism; Monasticism
Heroism, the Utilitarian theory unfavourable to, i. 66.
War, the school of heroism, 173
Hilarius, St., legend of him and St. Epiphanius, ii. 159
Hildebrand, his destruction of priestly marriage, ii. 322
Hippopotamus, legend of the, ii. 161
Historical literature, scantiness of, after the fall of the Roman empire,
ii. 235
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