The Government of Man: An Introduction to Ethics and Politics

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G. Bell & sons. Limited, 1913 - 318 páginas
 

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Página 280 - It is a partnership in all science -, a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership can not be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página 248 - When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do, and as they feel that they themselves must do if in his situation.
Página 260 - I there spoke of as proper to the business in hand, being that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man.
Página 216 - Law had not yet made the famous maxim that "the thought of man shall not be tried, for the Devil himself knoweth not the thought of man"1.
Página 79 - But you and I say, that while to the just and holy all these things are the best of possessions, to the unjust they are all. including even health, the greatest of evils. For in truth, to have sight, and hearing, and the use of the senses, or to live at all without justice and virtue...
Página 306 - Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you " ? This was the doctrine of Lao-tsze.
Página 78 - And he who would be dear to God must, as far as is possible, be like Him and such as He is.
Página 290 - Secondly, no private person has any right in any manner to prejudice another person in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church or religion.
Página 256 - Fifthly, the city of London and other great towns of trade, having in admiration the prosperity of the Low Countries after they had revolted from their monarch, the King of Spain, were inclined to think that the like change of government here, would to them produce the like prosperity.
Página 202 - Law is nothing else than an ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by him who has the care of the community.

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