The Elements of Morality: Including Polity, Volume 1Harper & Bros., 1845 - Ethics |
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... Faculties by which we become aware of their truth ? and the like . The two kinds of specula- tion have been pursued , for the most part , by two different class- es of persons ; -the Geometers , and the Metaphysicians ; for it has been ...
... Faculties by which we become aware of their truth ? and the like . The two kinds of specula- tion have been pursued , for the most part , by two different class- es of persons ; -the Geometers , and the Metaphysicians ; for it has been ...
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... Faculties by which we know them to be true . On this account , it seemed to me that the Construction of Elements of Morality ought to precede any attempt to settle the disputed and doubtful questions which are regarded as belonging to ...
... Faculties by which we know them to be true . On this account , it seemed to me that the Construction of Elements of Morality ought to precede any attempt to settle the disputed and doubtful questions which are regarded as belonging to ...
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... Faculties by which he acts as man . These faculties belong to man in vir- tue of the Human Nature which is common to all men . They are Human Faculties , and give rise to Human Actions . I and my readers share in this common Human ...
... Faculties by which he acts as man . These faculties belong to man in vir- tue of the Human Nature which is common to all men . They are Human Faculties , and give rise to Human Actions . I and my readers share in this common Human ...
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... faculties of man . But we do not always so use the word . We often distinguish external action from in- ternal thought , though thought is also a kind of ac- tivity . We also often distinguish actions from words , as when we say man's ...
... faculties of man . But we do not always so use the word . We often distinguish external action from in- ternal thought , though thought is also a kind of ac- tivity . We also often distinguish actions from words , as when we say man's ...
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... faculties fill up the abstract outline of the objects of desire , with particulars and images , by means of which they obtain a far stronger hold upon the purpose and will , than the mere abstraction of itself could have . By their ...
... faculties fill up the abstract outline of the objects of desire , with particulars and images , by means of which they obtain a far stronger hold upon the purpose and will , than the mere abstraction of itself could have . By their ...
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Page 91 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 129 - I come now, lastly, to speak of the legal consequences of such making, or dissolution. (By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law : that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband : under whose wing, protection, and cover, she performs everything...
Page 129 - But in trials of any sort they are not allowed to be evidence for, or against, each other: partly because it is impossible their testimony should be indifferent, but principally because of the union of person; and therefore, if they were admitted to be witnesses for each other, they would contradict one maxim of law, "nemo in propria causa testis esse debet"; and if against each other, they would contradict another maxim, "nemo tenetur seipsum accusare.
Page 141 - For the canon law, which the common law follows in this case, deems so highly and with such mysterious reverence of the nuptial tie, that it will not allow it to be unloosed for any cause whatsoever, that arises after the union is made.
Page 282 - Moralists have ranked with the cases in which Convention supersedes the general rule of truth, an Advocate asserting the justice, or his belief in the justice, of his Client's cause *. As a reason why he may do this, though he believe otherwise, it is said, that no promise to speak the truth was given, or supposed to be given. But we reply by asking; If there is no...
Page 130 - In the civil law the husband and the wife are considered as two distinct persons, and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries: and therefore in our ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue and be sued without her husband.
Page 356 - Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Page 342 - ... warnings. This Law cannot be annulled, superseded, or overruled. No Senate, no People can loose us from it; no Jurist, no Interpreter, can explain it away. It is not one Law at Rome, another at Athens ; one, at present, another at some future time ; but one Law, perpetual and immutable, includes all Nations and all times:):.
Page 93 - But in this, and in every other case of homicide upon provocation, if there be a sufficient cooling-time for passion to subside and reason to interpose, and the person so provoked afterwards kills the other, this is deliberate revenge and not heat of blood, and accordingly amounts to murder.
Page 123 - ... examination to be unsound, the purchaser must immediately return them to the vendor, or give him notice to take them back, and thereby rescind the contract, or he will be presumed to have acquiesced in the quality of the goods.