The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary Portraits, Том 2H. Colburn, 1825 - 408 стор. |
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... knowledge , and are con- stantly liable to be superseded and to grow out of fashion with its progress , as the scaffolding is thrown down as soon as the building is com- pleted . Mr. Bentham is not the first writer ( JEREMY BENTHAM . 9.
... knowledge , and are con- stantly liable to be superseded and to grow out of fashion with its progress , as the scaffolding is thrown down as soon as the building is com- pleted . Mr. Bentham is not the first writer ( JEREMY BENTHAM . 9.
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... writer . Perhaps the weak side of his conclusions also is , that he has carried this single view of his subject too far , and not made sufficient allowance for the varieties of human nature , and the caprices and irregularities of the ...
... writer . Perhaps the weak side of his conclusions also is , that he has carried this single view of his subject too far , and not made sufficient allowance for the varieties of human nature , and the caprices and irregularities of the ...
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... the co- operation of the natural prejudices of mankind , and the habitual feelings of that class of per- sons for whom they are more particularly designed . Legislators ( we mean writers on legislation ) 16 THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE .
... the co- operation of the natural prejudices of mankind , and the habitual feelings of that class of per- sons for whom they are more particularly designed . Legislators ( we mean writers on legislation ) 16 THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE .
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William Hazlitt. designed . Legislators ( we mean writers on legislation ) are philosophers , and governed by their reason criminals , for whose controul laws are made , are a set of desperadoes , go- verned only by their passions . What ...
William Hazlitt. designed . Legislators ( we mean writers on legislation ) are philosophers , and governed by their reason criminals , for whose controul laws are made , are a set of desperadoes , go- verned only by their passions . What ...
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... writer - its love of paradox and change , its dastard sub- mission to prejudice and to the fashion of the day . Five - and - twenty years ago he was in the very zenith of a sultry and unwholesome popularity ; he blazed as a sun in the ...
... writer - its love of paradox and change , its dastard sub- mission to prejudice and to the fashion of the day . Five - and - twenty years ago he was in the very zenith of a sultry and unwholesome popularity ; he blazed as a sun in the ...
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