 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 pàgines
...ii , ' 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. . . . The principle of utility recognises this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1833 - 378 pàgines
...maintains that "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... | |
 | 1833 - 492 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1833 - 490 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - 274 pàgines
...thus: — " 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." * It cannot fail to strike every reader of common intelligence, that, in thus dogmatically... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 334 pàgines
...UTILITY. UATDEE 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,... | |
 | 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 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 258 pàgines
...Pleasure.—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 otller, the chain of causes and... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pàgines
...Pleasure. — 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,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 pàgines
...passages: — " 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... | |
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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. 
