The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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He has devoted his life to the pursuit of abstract and general truths , and to those
studies “ That waft a thought from Indus to the Pole "and has never mixed himself
up with personal intrigues or party politics . He once , indeed , stuck up a hand ...
He has devoted his life to the pursuit of abstract and general truths , and to those
studies “ That waft a thought from Indus to the Pole "and has never mixed himself
up with personal intrigues or party politics . He once , indeed , stuck up a hand ...
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Mr . Bentham is not the first writer ( by a great many ) who has assumed the
principle of Utility as the foundation of just laws , and of all moral and political
reasoning : - his merit is , that he has applied this principle more closely and
literally ; that ...
Mr . Bentham is not the first writer ( by a great many ) who has assumed the
principle of Utility as the foundation of just laws , and of all moral and political
reasoning : - his merit is , that he has applied this principle more closely and
literally ; that ...
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... taking no more notice of him than if such an individual had never existed ; he is
to all ordinary intents and purposes dead and buried ; but the author of Political
Justice and of Caleb Williams can never die , his name is an abstraction in letters
...
... taking no more notice of him than if such an individual had never existed ; he is
to all ordinary intents and purposes dead and buried ; but the author of Political
Justice and of Caleb Williams can never die , his name is an abstraction in letters
...
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No work in our time gave such a blow to the philosophical mind of the country as
the celebrated Enquiry concerning Political Justice Tom Paine was considered
for the time as a Tom Fool to him ; Paley an old woman ; Edmund Burke a flashy ...
No work in our time gave such a blow to the philosophical mind of the country as
the celebrated Enquiry concerning Political Justice Tom Paine was considered
for the time as a Tom Fool to him ; Paley an old woman ; Edmund Burke a flashy ...
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The author of the Political Justice took abstract reason for the rule of conduct ,
and abstract good for its end . He places the human mind on an elevation , from
which it commands a view of the whole line of moral consequences ; and
requires it ...
The author of the Political Justice took abstract reason for the rule of conduct ,
and abstract good for its end . He places the human mind on an elevation , from
which it commands a view of the whole line of moral consequences ; and
requires it ...
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