 | David Hume - 1804 - Počet stránok 552
...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that PERSONAL MERIT consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself, or to others. It might be expected that this principle would have occurred ey^aM^f the first rude unpractised... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - Počet stránok 508
...concerned is incapable of being affected. There is a similar difference between our disapprobation of demerit, and that of impropriety. Merit, according...think, to the opposite objection, that it excludes from mer't many actions, which the common judgment of mankind has agreed to consider as possessing that... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - Počet stránok 626
...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that PERSONAL MERIT consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself, or to others. It might be expected that this principle would have occurred even to the first rude unpractised... | |
 | Ernst Reinhold - 1829 - Počet stránok 612
...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that personal merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself, or to other. a) 1. c. pag. 323. These two requisite circumstances belong alone to the sentiment of humanity... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - Počet stránok 576
...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that PERSONAL MERIT consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself, or to others. It might be expected that this principle would have occurred even to the first rude unpractised... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1855 - Počet stránok 512
...foundation of their merit ? " He had previously declared, that "personal merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities useful or agreeable to the person VravseK, or to others." On this others, more trustworthy, holding up utility as the only safe criterion... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - Počet stránok 458
...qualities, he arrives by an inductive process at the conclusion that "Personal Merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others." lie then resumes a consideration suggested at the outset (117) 17 of his work, with respect... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1892 - Počet stránok 674
...evolution. With admirable clearness and directness of illustration, he shows that Virtue, or personal merit, consists in the possession of mental qualities useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others. Not that men's approbation of these qualities rests upon an elaborate calculation of personal... | |
 | David Hume - 1902 - Počet stránok 419
...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that Personal Merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others. It might be expected that this principle would have occurred even to the first rude, unpractised... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - 1909 - Počet stránok 832
...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that Personal Merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others. It might be expected that this principle would have occurred even to the f1rst rude, unpractised... | |
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IT may justly appear surprising that any man in so late an age, should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that Personal Merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others. 
