 | 1795 - Počet stránok 612
...it : « Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two fovereign mafters, fa;a and ffeaj'urc. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we (hail do. On the one hand ihr ftandard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of caufes and effects,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - Počet stránok 532
...inte're't.' — Helve'tius De V Esprit, discours ii , ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. . . . The principle of utility recognises this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that... | |
 | 1833 - Počet stránok 492
...two masters govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think. It is for these sovereign masters to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. This their authority is secured in and by our very nature as sentient beings. Sentient beings are impelled... | |
 | 1833 - Počet stránok 490
...two masters govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think. It is for these sovereign masters to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. This their authority is secured in and by our very nature as sentient beings. Sentient beings are impelled... | |
 | Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - Počet stránok 274
...the Principles of Morals and Legislation" thus: — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." * It cannot fail to strike every reader of common intelligence, that, in thus dogmatically laying the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1891 - Počet stránok 580
...Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is lor them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one iiand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of cause and effect, are fastened to... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - Počet stránok 258
...disgust.—Priestley. Mankind governed by Pain and Pleasure.—Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure. It is...one hand, the standard of right and wrong; on the otller, the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - Počet stránok 376
...his attribution of an abstract moral character to actions, will reveal the grand defect of Paley 's ethical system. The most masterly refutation of that...what we ought to do. as well as to determine what wo shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and wrong ; on the other, the chain of causes and... | |
 | Henry Carleton - 1857 - Počet stránok 182
...Nature," says Jeremy Bentham, " has placed mankind under two sovereign masters, Pleasure and Pain. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do ; they govern us in all we do, in all we say, and in all we think. Every effort we can make to throw... | |
 | Charles Anthony Coke - 1864 - Počet stránok 212
...admire." — JBulwer. " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, p<z/ra And pleasure. It " is for them alone to point out...what we shall do. On the " one hand the standard of wright and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to '• their throne.... | |
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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. 
