The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits. [By W. Hazlitt.] |
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Mr. Bentham , in his attempts to revise and amend our criminal jurisprudence , proceeds entirely on his favourite principle of Utility . Convince highwaymen and house - breakers that it will be for their interest to reform , and they ...
Mr. Bentham , in his attempts to revise and amend our criminal jurisprudence , proceeds entirely on his favourite principle of Utility . Convince highwaymen and house - breakers that it will be for their interest to reform , and they ...
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You tell a person of this stamp what is his interest ; he says he does not care about his interest , or the world and he differ on that particular . But there is one point on which he must agree with them , namely , what they think of ...
You tell a person of this stamp what is his interest ; he says he does not care about his interest , or the world and he differ on that particular . But there is one point on which he must agree with them , namely , what they think of ...
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Is this sun of intellect blotted from the sky ? Or has it suffered total eclipse ? Or is it we who make the fancied gloom , by looking at it through the paltry , broken , stained fragments of our own interests and prejudices ...
Is this sun of intellect blotted from the sky ? Or has it suffered total eclipse ? Or is it we who make the fancied gloom , by looking at it through the paltry , broken , stained fragments of our own interests and prejudices ...
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... at a distance and in stately supposition shone like the palaces of the New Jerusalem , might ( when placed on actual ground ) be broken up into the sordid styes of sensuality , and the petty huckster's shops of self - interest !
... at a distance and in stately supposition shone like the palaces of the New Jerusalem , might ( when placed on actual ground ) be broken up into the sordid styes of sensuality , and the petty huckster's shops of self - interest !
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It is the medium of knowledge , and the polisher of manners , by creating common interests and ideas . Or in the words of a contemporary writer , “ Reason is the queen of the moral world , the soul of the universe , the lamp of human ...
It is the medium of knowledge , and the polisher of manners , by creating common interests and ideas . Or in the words of a contemporary writer , “ Reason is the queen of the moral world , the soul of the universe , the lamp of human ...
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