The Geniune Works of R Leighton Author:Robert Leighton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1819 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: LECTURE IV. In which it is proved that Human Felicity cannot be found either in the Earth, or earthly Things. are all in quest of one thing, but almost all of us out of the right road : therefore, to be sure, the longer and the more swiftly we move in a wrong path, the farther we depart from the object of our desires : and if it is so, we can speak or think of nothing more proper and seasonable, than of inquiring about the only right way, whereby we may all come to see the bright fountain of goodness. I know you will remember, that, on the last occasion, we proposed the most important of all questions, viz. that concerning our ultimate end, or the way to discover true happiness ; to which we asserted, that all mankind do aspire with a natural, and therefore a constant and uniform ardour t ; or rather, we supposed, that all are sufficiently acquainted with this happiness, nay, really do, or at least may feel it within them, if they thoroughly know themselves. For this is the end of the labours of men, to this tend all their toils ; this is the general aim of all, not only of the sharp-sighted, but the blear- eyed and short-sightedt, nay, even of those that are quite blind ; who, though they cannot see the Boni fontem visere lucidum. f 'A5/xrgeflfyeg/tj. mark they propose to themselves, yet are in hopes of reaching it at last: that is to say, though their ideas of it are very confused and imperfect, they all desire happiness in the obvious sense of the word. We have also observed, that this term, in its general acceptation, imports that full and perfect good which is suited to intelligent nature . I...« less