 | 1795 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...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...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 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...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 beings are impelled... | |
 | 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...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 beings are impelled... | |
 | Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 274
...the Principles of Morals and Legislation" thus: — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...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 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...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 effect, are fastened to... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...— " 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 the one hand, the standard of right and wroii^; on the other, the cha.n of causes and effects are... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...theory, also, as the basis of moral obligation, may be learned by two characteristic passages : — "Nature has placed mankind under the government of...what we ought to do. as well as to determine what wo shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and wrong ; on the other, the chain of causes and... | |
 | Henry Carleton - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 182
...Nature," says Jeremy Bentham, " has placed mankind under two sovereign masters, Pleasure and Pain. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do ; they govern us in all we do, in all we say, and in all we think. Every effort we can make to throw... | |
 | James Frederick Ferrier - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...Jeremy Bentham, " has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." Whether, and in what sense, pleasure and pain may be said to be the two sovereign masters of mankind... | |
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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. 
