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acquired afford amount applied asso become behaviour called cause character civil comforts common law conduct corrupt court Court of Chancery crime criminal cultivated demoralized depend despotic DIRECT TAXES disposition domestic effect enjoyment evil exercise feelings fostering care give habits happiness human idle ignorant improvement increase INDIVIDUAL DUTIES industry influence injure intellectual and moral interest Jeremy Bentham judge justice justly kind knowledge labour laws legislators liberty living man's marriage means means of happiness MEMBERS OF SOCIETY ment mental and moral minds misery mode moral duties moral nature moral powers nations necessary neglect offenders parents passions peace perceive perform perity perly persons political duties portion possess present principle produce promote propensities proper render respect rulers seek selfish social and political taught tical tion truth unjust unwritten law vice wants waste welfare WILLIAM LOVETT wise
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Page 161 - You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea.
Page 189 - The darkest night that shrouds the sky Of beauty hath a share ; The blackest heart hath signs to tell That God still lingers there.
Page 92 - ... self-respect, and to have failed in her most essential duties ; and this also will cause her home to be less comfortable and less attractive. If she allows other engagements to interfere with those duties of regularity and order she owes to her husband and family, who may be compelled to be punctual to their work and meals at stated hours, she will also give cause for bickering and domestic discontent. If she treasures up the remembrance of hasty words and trifling neglects, and, instead of cheerful...
Page 90 - ... education. Under such circumstances, what is the husband's duty? What are the means he should adopt, in order that his life's companion may be able to respond to his sentiments, to appreciate his intellectual pursuits, and to be qualified to become the instructor of his children ? May we not confidently state, that few young wives are so perversely blind to the advantages of knowledge, as not to be prepared to receive the information the husband of her affections is desirous to impart to her?
Page 81 - ... as well as those social laws the observance of which will best promote their own happiness, and that of the community of which they are members. This kind of knowledge will form a mental groundwork of strength and power ; will cause the young to perceive the evil tendency of immoral desires ; and the heavy penalties vicious indulgences are sure to entail on themselves and their offspring.
Page 90 - They may have both received the great blessing of a sound education; and thus, with minds able to appreciate the advantages of knowledge, and with kindred tastes in its pursuit, may feel the greatest delight in exploring the wide field before them, and in imparting to each other their gathered stores of information.
Page 84 - ... the hereditary maladies of consumption, gout, scrofula, or insanity are to be found in the family of either ; the development of which is almost sure to render them incapable of attending to their domestic duties; and, what is far worse, taint and blight their offspring with disease and misery.
Page 169 - These rules are of two kinds, the common law and the statute law. The common law is...
Page 173 - Alfred, was to bring justice home to every man's door by constituting as many courts of judicature as there were manors and townships in the kingdom; wherein injuries were redressed in an easy and expiditious manner by the suffrage of neighbors and friends.