The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary Portraits, Том 2H. Colburn, 1825 - 408 стор. |
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... truth is a mere literal truism ? We are not , then , so much to inquire what certain things are abstractedly or in themselves , as how they affect the mind , and to approve or condemn them accordingly . The same object seen near strikes ...
... truth is a mere literal truism ? We are not , then , so much to inquire what certain things are abstractedly or in themselves , as how they affect the mind , and to approve or condemn them accordingly . The same object seen near strikes ...
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... truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth would be the best possible ground to place morality upon . But it is not so . In ascer- taining the rules of moral conduct , we must have regard not merely to the nature of the object ...
... truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth would be the best possible ground to place morality upon . But it is not so . In ascer- taining the rules of moral conduct , we must have regard not merely to the nature of the object ...
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... truth is a mere literal truism ? We are not , then , so much to inquire what certain things are abstractedly or in themselves , as how they affect the mind , and to approve or condemn them accordingly . The same object seen near strikes ...
... truth is a mere literal truism ? We are not , then , so much to inquire what certain things are abstractedly or in themselves , as how they affect the mind , and to approve or condemn them accordingly . The same object seen near strikes ...
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... truth and justice ? Or whe- ther benevolence , constructed upon a logical scale , would not be merely nominal , whether duty , raised to too lofty a pitch of refinement , might not sink into callous indifference or hol- low selfishness ...
... truth and justice ? Or whe- ther benevolence , constructed upon a logical scale , would not be merely nominal , whether duty , raised to too lofty a pitch of refinement , might not sink into callous indifference or hol- low selfishness ...
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... truth and honour both , and does one good to read it in an age , when " to be honest " ( or not to laugh at the very idea of honesty ) " is to be one man picked out of ten thousand ! " Mr. * Now Lord Colchester . Bentham relieves his ...
... truth and honour both , and does one good to read it in an age , when " to be honest " ( or not to laugh at the very idea of honesty ) " is to be one man picked out of ten thousand ! " Mr. * Now Lord Colchester . Bentham relieves his ...
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