 | 1795 - 612 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 páginas
...inte're't.' — Helve'tius De V Esprit, discours ii , ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...what we 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... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1833 - 378 páginas
...Principles of Morals and Legislation," he maintains that "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure. It is...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... | |
 | 1833 - 490 páginas
...two masters govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think. It is for these sovereign masters to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. This their authority is secured in and by our very nature as sentient beings. Sentient... | |
 | 1833 - 492 páginas
...two masters govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think. It is for these sovereign masters to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. This their authority is secured in and by our very nature as sentient beings. Sentient... | |
 | Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - 274 páginas
...the Principles of Morals and Legislation" thus: — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...what we ought 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... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 334 páginas
...LEGISLATION. CHAPTER I. Or THE PRINCIPLE OP UTILITY. UATDEE has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...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... | |
 | 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 páginas
...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 iiand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of cause and... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 258 páginas
...disgust.—Priestley. Mankind governed by Pain and Pleasure.—Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure. It is...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 otller, the chain of causes and... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 páginas
...4 DLXIX. Mankind governed by Pain and Pleasure. — Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure. It is...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... | |
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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. 
