History of Civilization in England, Volume 1D. Appleton and Company, 1858 - England |
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... circumstances 128 under which the faculties come into play 128 The standard of action having varied in every age , the causes of action must be variable . 129 But moral truths have not changed 129 And intellectual truths are constantly ...
... circumstances 128 under which the faculties come into play 128 The standard of action having varied in every age , the causes of action must be variable . 129 But moral truths have not changed 129 And intellectual truths are constantly ...
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... circumstances by which the temper and character of mankind have been affected , and in which they are displayed . These important pursuits being , however , culti- vated , some by one man , and some by another , have been iso- lated ...
... circumstances by which the temper and character of mankind have been affected , and in which they are displayed . These important pursuits being , however , culti- vated , some by one man , and some by another , have been iso- lated ...
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... circumstances conscious of the ex- istence of spectres and phantoms ; and yet is it not generally ad- mitted that such beings have no existence at all ? Should it be attempted to refute this argument by saying that such conscious- ness ...
... circumstances conscious of the ex- istence of spectres and phantoms ; and yet is it not generally ad- mitted that such beings have no existence at all ? Should it be attempted to refute this argument by saying that such conscious- ness ...
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... circumstances . Should I fail in this prediction , I must ascribe my error not to the arbitrary and capricious freedom of his will , nor to any supernatural pre- arrangement , for of neither of these things have we the slightest proof ...
... circumstances . Should I fail in this prediction , I must ascribe my error not to the arbitrary and capricious freedom of his will , nor to any supernatural pre- arrangement , for of neither of these things have we the slightest proof ...
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... circumstances for which the criminal will frequently wait ; that he has thus to bide his time , and look for opportunities he cannot control ; that when the time has come , his heart may fail him ; that the question whether or not he ...
... circumstances for which the criminal will frequently wait ; that he has thus to bide his time , and look for opportunities he cannot control ; that when the time has come , his heart may fail him ; that the question whether or not he ...
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Page 95 - To do good to others ; to sacrifice for their benefit your own wishes ; to love your neighbour as yourself; to forgive your enemies; to restrain your passions; to honour your parents; to respect those who are set over you : these, and a few others, are the sole essentials of morals; but they have been known for thousands of years, and not one jot or tittle has been added to them by all the sermons, homilies, and text-books which moralists and theologians have been able to produce.
Page 20 - In a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an end to their own life. This is the general law; and the special question as to who shall commit the crime depends of course upon special laws; which, however, in their total action, must obey the large social law to which they are subordinate.
Page 301 - The storm has gone over me; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth!
Page 299 - ... necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us: because, after all our struggle, whether we will or not, we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances, and not according to our own imaginations...
Page 223 - ... the chief, perhaps the only, English writer who has any claim to be considered an ecclesiastical historian, is the infidel Gibbon.
Page 140 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states, that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Page 230 - For my part, I have ever believed (and do now know) that there are witches." They that doubt of these do not only deny them but spirits, and are obliquely and upon consequence a sort, not of infidels, but atheists.
Page 299 - America, if she has taxable matter in her, to tax herself. I am not here going into the distinctions of rights, nor attempting to mark their boundaries. I do not enter into these metaphysical distinctions. I hate the very sound of them.
Page 93 - ... and other personal peculiarities, that we must consider this alleged progress as a very doubtful point; and in the present state of our knowledge we cannot safely assume that there has been any permanent improvement in the moral or intellectual faculties of man; nor have we any decisive ground for saying that these faculties are likely to be greater in an infant born in the most civilized part of Europe than in one born in the wildest region of a barbarous country.
Page 122 - Well may it be said of Adam Smith, and said, too, without fear of contradiction, that this solitary Scotchman has, by the publication of one single work, contributed more towards the happiness of man, than has been effected by the united abilities .of all the statesmen. and legislators of whom history has preserved an authentic account.