The Elements of Morality: Including Polity, Volume 1Harper & Bros., 1845 - Ethics |
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... human knowledge is the design of the above series . It is apparent in the present day that books of intrinsic value are de- manded by the people . Formerly the popular taste prefer- red mainly works of mere amusement ; the great body of ...
... human knowledge is the design of the above series . It is apparent in the present day that books of intrinsic value are de- manded by the people . Formerly the popular taste prefer- red mainly works of mere amusement ; the great body of ...
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... human action , would naturally throw most important light upon all the greatest concerns of man , both theoretical and practical . It is true , that the difficulty of constructing a solid System of Morality may be expected to be , in ...
... human action , would naturally throw most important light upon all the greatest concerns of man , both theoretical and practical . It is true , that the difficulty of constructing a solid System of Morality may be expected to be , in ...
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... Humanity , Justice , Truth , Purity , Order , Earnestness , and Moral Purpose , are fundamental Prin- ciples of human action ; in whatever manner he arrives at this conviction , he will be able to go along with me from this point ; and ...
... Humanity , Justice , Truth , Purity , Order , Earnestness , and Moral Purpose , are fundamental Prin- ciples of human action ; in whatever manner he arrives at this conviction , he will be able to go along with me from this point ; and ...
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... Human Actions . PAGE • 27 2. Thoughts and Things . Sensation and Reflection . 3. General and Abstract Conceptions . 4 . Names of Conceptions . 5. Truth and Error . General Relations . 6 . 7 . Ideas of Space , Time , & c . Reasoning ...
... Human Actions . PAGE • 27 2. Thoughts and Things . Sensation and Reflection . 3. General and Abstract Conceptions . 4 . Names of Conceptions . 5. Truth and Error . General Relations . 6 . 7 . Ideas of Space , Time , & c . Reasoning ...
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... 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 Nature ; and hence , instead of saying that man acts thus and thus , or has such and such ...
... 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 Nature ; and hence , instead of saying that man acts thus and thus , or has such and such ...
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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.