Manual of Political Ethics: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Colleges and Students at Law, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1875 - Political ethics |
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... believe we do not venture too far in considering it as a settled truth that the mental activity of the animal , which it undoubtedly possesses , does not elevate itself above some of the most elementary combinations of impressions ...
... believe we do not venture too far in considering it as a settled truth that the mental activity of the animal , which it undoubtedly possesses , does not elevate itself above some of the most elementary combinations of impressions ...
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... believe that I have observed this painful effect of a struggle between the mind and means . of utterance in a dog , which was anxious to communicate a serious accident and yet did not succeed in doing so for a long time . But this ...
... believe that I have observed this painful effect of a struggle between the mind and means . of utterance in a dog , which was anxious to communicate a serious accident and yet did not succeed in doing so for a long time . But this ...
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... believe , one unworthy of the Creator , to imagine that the whole brute creation moves and acts in no other way than the dissolved chemical elements of some body when they crystallize ; on the other hand , that it is equally erroneous ...
... believe , one unworthy of the Creator , to imagine that the whole brute creation moves and acts in no other way than the dissolved chemical elements of some body when they crystallize ; on the other hand , that it is equally erroneous ...
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... believe , but you have the undoubted , primitive , and absolute certainty of it ; you know that this consciousness constitutes an essential attribute of your being , and that it is not accidental . " Greater certainty than this absolute ...
... believe , but you have the undoubted , primitive , and absolute certainty of it ; you know that this consciousness constitutes an essential attribute of your being , and that it is not accidental . " Greater certainty than this absolute ...
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... Abyssinia , people would not believe that the inhabitants of that country feasted upon meat cut out of living oxen close by the fire , so that the steak may be swallowed while yet quivering . Alas ! 42 ETHICS IN GENERAL .
... Abyssinia , people would not believe that the inhabitants of that country feasted upon meat cut out of living oxen close by the fire , so that the steak may be swallowed while yet quivering . Alas ! 42 ETHICS IN GENERAL .
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Page 307 - Parva metu primo ; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit...
Page 54 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Page 327 - ... he looked upon the independence and uprightness of the judges, as essential to the impartial administration of justice ; as one of the best securities of the rights and liberties of his subjects; and as most conducive to the honour of the crown.
Page 283 - That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 84 - I apprehend (when the term is used with any distinct meaning), an exercise of the judgment unaided by any Art or system of rules; such an exercise as we must necessarily employ in numberless cases of daily occurrence; in which, having no established principles to guide us — no line of procedure, as it were, distinctly chalked out — we must needs act on the best extemporaneous conjectures we can form. He who is eminently...
Page 195 - Crimes are the acts of individuals, and not of denominations ; and therefore arbitrarily to class men under general descriptions, in order to proscribe and punish them in the lump for a presumed delinquency, of which perhaps but a part, perhaps none at all, are guilty, is indeed a compendious method...
Page 210 - Indeed, it is found by experience, that whenever the unconstitutional oppressions, even of the sovereign power, advance with gigantic strides, and threaten desolation to a state, mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity ; nor will sacrifice their liberty by a scrupulous adherence to those political maxims which were originally established to preserve it.
Page 362 - I numbered the efforts it made to accomplish this object. The grain fell sixty-nine times to the ground; but the insect persevered, and the seventieth time it reached the top. This sight gave me courage at the moment, and I never forgot the lesson.
Page 246 - Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do in the name of all the people aforesaid most humbly and faithfully submit themselves, their heirs and posterities for ever...
Page 270 - Again, men have no pleasure, but on the contrary a great deal of grief, in keeping company, where there is no power able to over-awe them all.