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... to the moral man , the constitution of his mind will scarcely be found to be built
up of pure reason and a regard to consequences : if we consider the criminal
man ( with whom the legislator has chiefly to do ) it will be found to be still less so
.
... to the moral man , the constitution of his mind will scarcely be found to be built
up of pure reason and a regard to consequences : if we consider the criminal
man ( with whom the legislator has chiefly to do ) it will be found to be still less so
.
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... are we dishonest now ? Or was the impulse of the mind less likely to be true
and sound when it arose from high thought and warm feeling , than afterwards ,
when it was warped and debased by the example D 2 WILLIAM GODWIN . 35.
... are we dishonest now ? Or was the impulse of the mind less likely to be true
and sound when it arose from high thought and warm feeling , than afterwards ,
when it was warped and debased by the example D 2 WILLIAM GODWIN . 35.
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Mr . Godwin ' s definition of morals was the same as the admired orfe of law ,
reason without passion ; but with the unlimited scope of private opinion , and in a
boundless field of speculation ( for nothing less would satisfy the pretensions of
the ...
Mr . Godwin ' s definition of morals was the same as the admired orfe of law ,
reason without passion ; but with the unlimited scope of private opinion , and in a
boundless field of speculation ( for nothing less would satisfy the pretensions of
the ...
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Captain Parry would be thought to have rendered a service to navigation and his
country , no less by proving that there is no North - West Passage , than if he had
ascertained that there is one : so Mr . Godwin has rendered an essential service ...
Captain Parry would be thought to have rendered a service to navigation and his
country , no less by proving that there is no North - West Passage , than if he had
ascertained that there is one : so Mr . Godwin has rendered an essential service ...
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This is the case also with the story of St . Leon , which , with less dramatic interest
and intensity of purpose , is set off by a more gorgeous and flowing eloquence ,
and by a crown of preternatural imagery , that waves over it like a palmtree !
This is the case also with the story of St . Leon , which , with less dramatic interest
and intensity of purpose , is set off by a more gorgeous and flowing eloquence ,
and by a crown of preternatural imagery , that waves over it like a palmtree !
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