 | 1795 - 612 pages
...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 - 532 pages
...prend dans ses jugements conseil que de son inte're't.' — Helve'tius De V Esprit, discours ii , ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...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 - 492 pages
...and comprehensive view of the great practical principle which directed all Mr. Bentham's efforts. " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure : these two masters govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think. It is for these sovereign... | |
 | 1833 - 490 pages
...and comprehensive view of the great practical principle which directed all Mr. Bentham's efforts. " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure : these two masters govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think. It is for these sovereign... | |
 | Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - 274 pages
...on religion. He begins his " Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation" thus: — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...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 - 580 pages
...aholished, ' must ' reigns without restriction ; for it is the same writer who magisterially asserts that ' 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... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 258 pages
...labour through provocation and disgust.—Priestley. Mankind governed by Pain and Pleasure.—Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign...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 - 1850 - 364 pages
...theory, also, as to the basis of moral obligation, may be learned by two characteristic passages: — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of...causes and effects are fastened to their throne."- — " Bentham's Introd. of Morals," vol. 1, c. 1. And again: — "But is it never, then, from any other... | |
 | 1850 - 574 pages
...foremost among the benefactors of the human race, with which the world has ever yet been blessed. That nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure — that these two masters govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think — that every effort... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 368 pages
...theory, also, ns to the basis of moral obligation, ninv be learned by two characteristic passages: — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. Jt is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. Un... | |
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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. 
