Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkCharles Wells, 1836 - 504 sider |
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Side 88
... of suits , and I wonder only at their termination . " Mr. Jeremy Bentham considers litigation a great evil , and deems it the height of cruelty , to load a lawsuit , which It has been asked , which are the greatest minds 88 LACON .
... of suits , and I wonder only at their termination . " Mr. Jeremy Bentham considers litigation a great evil , and deems it the height of cruelty , to load a lawsuit , which It has been asked , which are the greatest minds 88 LACON .
Side 89
... evil , with taxation , which is another . It would be quite as fair , he thinks , to tax a man for being ill , by enact- ing that no physician should write a prescription without a stamp . Mr. Pitt , on the contrary , considered a ...
... evil , with taxation , which is another . It would be quite as fair , he thinks , to tax a man for being ill , by enact- ing that no physician should write a prescription without a stamp . Mr. Pitt , on the contrary , considered a ...
Side 101
... evil in morals , as friction in mechanics , induces men to reiterate their complaints of their own deficien- cies , in every conceivable gift , except in that article alone where such complaints would neither be irrational nor ...
... evil in morals , as friction in mechanics , induces men to reiterate their complaints of their own deficien- cies , in every conceivable gift , except in that article alone where such complaints would neither be irrational nor ...
Side 107
... evil which may be fairly stated of either . In such a dilemma , it is not unusual , for the sake of unanim- ity , to adopt some half measure , which , as it has been emasculated of its energy to please the mode- rate , will often ...
... evil which may be fairly stated of either . In such a dilemma , it is not unusual , for the sake of unanim- ity , to adopt some half measure , which , as it has been emasculated of its energy to please the mode- rate , will often ...
Side 131
... evil hour by parricidal hands . The close observer of human nature , who takes nothing on trust , who , undazzled by the lustre , calmly inquires into the use , will not be contented with a bare examination of the causes that conspired ...
... evil hour by parricidal hands . The close observer of human nature , who takes nothing on trust , who , undazzled by the lustre , calmly inquires into the use , will not be contented with a bare examination of the causes that conspired ...
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