Paley's Moral and Political PhilosophyUriah Hunt, 1835 - 298 pages |
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... person can safely act upon this principle , in questions of right and wrong , but one who can take into view the boundless future . Now , it need not be proved that none but God has this perfect foreknowledge ; no one else can ...
... person can safely act upon this principle , in questions of right and wrong , but one who can take into view the boundless future . Now , it need not be proved that none but God has this perfect foreknowledge ; no one else can ...
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... person , can , in the language of the Roman law , become a thing , or a subject of property . ' ' The supposed property of the master in the slave , therefore , is matter of usurpation , not of right . ' It may be possible to deduce ...
... person , can , in the language of the Roman law , become a thing , or a subject of property . ' ' The supposed property of the master in the slave , therefore , is matter of usurpation , not of right . ' It may be possible to deduce ...
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... that , and afterward to consult on each subject such readings as fell in my way ; which order , I am convinced , is the only one whereby any person can keep his thoughts from sliding into other men's trains . The effect of 12 PREFACE .
... that , and afterward to consult on each subject such readings as fell in my way ; which order , I am convinced , is the only one whereby any person can keep his thoughts from sliding into other men's trains . The effect of 12 PREFACE .
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... persons of a certain class either agree to regulate , or are expected to regulate their conduct . It is evident that the obligation of the law of ho- nor , as such , results exclusively from the agreement , tacit or expressed , of the ...
... persons of a certain class either agree to regulate , or are expected to regulate their conduct . It is evident that the obligation of the law of ho- nor , as such , results exclusively from the agreement , tacit or expressed , of the ...
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... persons not quite ignorant of the principles of natural justice , they do not so much teach new rules of morality , as enforce the practice of it by new and better motives . Thus , for instance , extor- tioners are condemned by the ...
... persons not quite ignorant of the principles of natural justice , they do not so much teach new rules of morality , as enforce the practice of it by new and better motives . Thus , for instance , extor- tioners are condemned by the ...
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Page 240 - To establish post offices and post roads ; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries ; To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas...
Page 229 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Page 160 - And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
Page 71 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 251 - The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The Legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The Judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse ; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society ; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment ; and...
Page 197 - For, rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same ; for he is the minister of God to thee for good.
Page 158 - Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Page 290 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment; but I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment...
Page 200 - Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Page 257 - There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men, acting by virtue of powers, may do not...