The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Tom 2John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... Punishments . - There are dreadful punishments en- acted against thieves ; but it were much better to make such good provisions , by which every man might be put in a method how to live , and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity ...
... Punishments . - There are dreadful punishments en- acted against thieves ; but it were much better to make such good provisions , by which every man might be put in a method how to live , and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity ...
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... punishment ? This is an instance , I could not wish a stronger , of the numberless things which we pass by in their common dress , yet which shock us when they are nakedly represented . But this number , considerable as it is , and the ...
... punishment ? This is an instance , I could not wish a stronger , of the numberless things which we pass by in their common dress , yet which shock us when they are nakedly represented . But this number , considerable as it is , and the ...
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... Punishments . - The intent of punish- ments is not to torment a sensible being , nor to undo a crime already committed ... punishment , therefore , is no other than to prevent the criminal from doing farther injury to society , and to ...
... Punishments . - The intent of punish- ments is not to torment a sensible being , nor to undo a crime already committed ... punishment , therefore , is no other than to prevent the criminal from doing farther injury to society , and to ...
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... punishment , is absurd ; be- cause it is an equal chance whether the punishment fall upon the offender or the person offended . Nor is it much better as a reparation ; it being difficult to explain in what the satisfaction consists , or ...
... punishment , is absurd ; be- cause it is an equal chance whether the punishment fall upon the offender or the person offended . Nor is it much better as a reparation ; it being difficult to explain in what the satisfaction consists , or ...
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... punished with death ; but one who , by false arts and insinuations , should take from her her very self , is only to suffer disgrace . - Steele . DCV . Destiny of the Human Race . - That the human race is not destined to stand still ...
... punished with death ; but one who , by false arts and insinuations , should take from her her very self , is only to suffer disgrace . - Steele . DCV . Destiny of the Human Race . - That the human race is not destined to stand still ...
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Strona 25 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Strona 220 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Strona 43 - 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. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
Strona 46 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Strona 25 - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness.
Strona 25 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
Strona 74 - I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared, nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory.
Strona 27 - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race...
Strona 43 - ... shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire ; but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while.
Strona 183 - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.