 Hence the good and happiness of the members — that is, the majority of the members — of any state, is the great standard by which everything relating to that state must finally be determined...  Notes and Queries - Strana 2451879Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Robert Corfe - 2000 - Počet stránok 406
...live in society for their mutual advantage; so that the good and happiness of the members, that is, of the majority of the members of any state, is the great...relating to that state must finally be determined ." Joseph Priestley, EsxqyOii UK First Principles of Government, 2nd ed ., 1771, p. 13. 1 - Value of... | |
 | Willi Paul Adams - 2001 - Počet stránok 406
...state."24 22. Mass. Spy, May 18, 1776, also in Taylor, ed., Massachusetts, 29-30. Joseph Priestley wrote in 1768: "The good and happiness of the members, that...relating to that state must finally be determined." First Pr1nciples of Government, 17. Francis Hutcheson, writing about 1737, had called "the general... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - Počet stránok 776
...Questions of political leadership, by contrast, were pragmatic - who was least corruptible by power? 'The good and happiness of the members, that is, the majority of the members of any state,' he wrote, 'is the great standard by which everything related to that state must fInally be determined'... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 2006 - Počet stránok 348
...Government in 1768. Priestley says (p. 17) that 'the good and happiness of the members, that is of the majority of the members, of any state is the great...standard by which everything relating to that state must be finally determined.' So Le Mercier de la Riviere says, in 1767, that the ultimate end of society... | |
 | Robert Corfe - 2008 - Počet stránok 488
...live in society for their mutual advantage; so that the good and happiness of the members, that is, of the majority of the members of any state, is the great...relating to that state must finally be determined." Joseph Priestley, Essay On The First Principles of Government, 2nd ed, 1771, p.13. 1 - Value of the... | |
 | 1879 - Počet stránok 652
...indebted for this phrase to " a pamphlet of Dr. Priestley's." Mr. Rutt, the editor of Priestley's Works, Lond., 1831, tells us that he cannot find the passage...alluded to by Bentham. Where did he get the phrase ? BlBLIOTHECARY. A NEW PRINCIPLE AND A NEW LAW. — Will any of the readers of " N. & Q." write to... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1903 - Počet stránok 524
...those very ends which society was intended to procure! Men associate for their mutual advantage. Hence, the good and happiness of the members, that is, the...relating to that state must finally be determined; and though it may be supposed that a body of people may be bound by a voluntary resignation (which... | |
 | 1922 - Počet stránok 578
...Priestley (1733-1804), a dissenting preacher, published in 1768 an Essay on Government in which he stated ''the good and happiness of the members, that is the...relating to that state must finally be determined." Two years after its publication the essay fell into the hands of Bentham, who upon completing the reading... | |
 | Moisei Ostrogorski - 1908 - Počet stránok 698
...society is at stake. " All people," says Priestley, "live in society for their mutual advantage, so that the good and happiness of the members, that is, the...everything relating to that state must finally be determined."2 And who is the judge of the good of the members ? But this is equivalent to asking who... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1806 - Počet stránok 498
...whether it be expressed or not, that all people live " in society for their mutual advantage ; so that the " good and happiness of the members, that is the...members of any state, is the great " standard by which every thing relating to that " state must be finally determined. And though it " may be supposed, that... | |
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