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... moral as in physical magnitude . The little is seen best near the great appears in its proper dimensions , only from a more commanding point of view , and gains strength with time , and elevation from distance ! Mr. Bentham is very much ...
... moral as in physical magnitude . The little is seen best near the great appears in its proper dimensions , only from a more commanding point of view , and gains strength with time , and elevation from distance ! Mr. Bentham is very much ...
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... morals . ' He has not struck out any great leading principle or parent- truth , from which a number of others might be deduced , nor has he enriched the common and established stock of intelligence with original observations , like ...
... morals . ' He has not struck out any great leading principle or parent- truth , from which a number of others might be deduced , nor has he enriched the common and established stock of intelligence with original observations , like ...
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... moral and political rea- soning : —his merit is , that he has applied this principle more closely and literally ; that he has brought all the objections and arguments , more distinctly labelled and ticketed , under this one head , and ...
... moral and political rea- soning : —his merit is , that he has applied this principle more closely and literally ; that he has brought all the objections and arguments , more distinctly labelled and ticketed , under this one head , and ...
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... moral estimate , whether it be the pleasure of sense or of con- science , whether it arise from the exercise of virtue or the perpetration of crime . We are afraid the human mind does not readily come into this doctrine , this ultima ...
... moral estimate , whether it be the pleasure of sense or of con- science , whether it arise from the exercise of virtue or the perpetration of crime . We are afraid the human mind does not readily come into this doctrine , this ultima ...
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Or, Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt William Carew Hazlitt. sible ground to place morality upon . But it is not so . In ascertaining the rules of moral conduct , we must have regard not merely to the nature of the object , but to ...
Or, Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt William Carew Hazlitt. sible ground to place morality upon . But it is not so . In ascertaining the rules of moral conduct , we must have regard not merely to the nature of the object , but to ...
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Page 307 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 226 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Page 114 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 247 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 226 - But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.
Page 46 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.