The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Том 16

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Страница 345 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Страница 408 - A great multitude of people are continually talking of the Law of Nature; and then they go on giving you their sentiments about what is right and what is wrong: and these sentiments, you are to understand, are so many chapters and sections of the Law of Nature.
Страница 301 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Страница 452 - But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life.
Страница 408 - The fairest and openest of them all is that sort of man who speaks out, and says, I am of the number of the Elect: now God himself takes care to inform the Elect what is right: and that with so good effect, that let them strive ever so, they cannot help not only knowing it but practising it.
Страница 409 - Unnatural, is as good a word as moral sense, or common sense; and would be as good a foundation for a system. Such an act is unnatural; that is, repugnant to nature: for I do not like to practise it: and, consequently, do not practise it. It is therefore repugnant to what ought to be the nature of every body else.
Страница 551 - Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.
Страница 303 - When a man attempts to combat the principle of utility, it is with reasons drawn, without his being aware of it, from that very principle itself.
Страница 304 - Admitting any other principle than the principle of utility to be a right principle, a principle that it is right for a man to pursue; admitting (what is not true) that the word right can have a meaning without reference to utility, let him say whether...
Страница 147 - Cole aim has been to mention, with freedom and impartiality, the writers on all fides of the different queftions, that hereby the mind of the ftudent may be fully enlarged, and that he may be able, with the greater advantage, to profecute his fearches after truth.

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