The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...W. Tait, 1842 - 670 páginas |
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... Legislation , Dumont proposes to add , the seasons ; sounds ; -music - military music , the voice - soft - sharp - exasper- ated , & c .; colours ,. darkness , as inspir- ing sadness , fear , & c .; light ; food ; noise ; silence ...
... Legislation , Dumont proposes to add , the seasons ; sounds ; -music - military music , the voice - soft - sharp - exasper- ated , & c .; colours ,. darkness , as inspir- ing sadness , fear , & c .; light ; food ; noise ; silence ...
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... legislation . Colqu- houn was the author of the well - known works on the Police of the Metropolis , and the Thames Police , and of other valuable statistical investigations . He was for some time in trade in Glasgow , and afterwards ...
... legislation . Colqu- houn was the author of the well - known works on the Police of the Metropolis , and the Thames Police , and of other valuable statistical investigations . He was for some time in trade in Glasgow , and afterwards ...
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... Legislation , and that his work has been taken for yours . principal clerks , particularly M. Haute- rive to whom you owe gratitude for his admiration of you . I had the best of your MSS . about me . Talleyrand made you , of his own ...
... Legislation , and that his work has been taken for yours . principal clerks , particularly M. Haute- rive to whom you owe gratitude for his admiration of you . I had the best of your MSS . about me . Talleyrand made you , of his own ...
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... legislation , to show them what an ensemble means ; to teach them the difference between a man who knows ponere totum , and him who only grasps a very small part of a great whole . If there be anything calculated to strike an ...
... legislation , to show them what an ensemble means ; to teach them the difference between a man who knows ponere totum , and him who only grasps a very small part of a great whole . If there be anything calculated to strike an ...
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... modesty with which one must speak of one's friends : are they not part of one's self ? is not one suspected of self- * The " Traités de Législation , " & c . If I had called a cat a cat , would 386 [ 1802 . BENTHAM'S CORRESPONDENCE .
... modesty with which one must speak of one's friends : are they not part of one's self ? is not one suspected of self- * The " Traités de Législation , " & c . If I had called a cat a cat , would 386 [ 1802 . BENTHAM'S CORRESPONDENCE .
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 494 - Nay, had she been true, If heaven would make me such another world Of one entire and perfect chrysolite, I'd not have sold her for it.
Página 532 - For forms of government let fools contest— That which is best administered is best...
Página 559 - In its improved condition in England, and especially in its improved and varied condition in this country, under the benign influence of an expanded commerce, of enlightened justice, of republican principles, and of sound philosophy, the common law has become a code of matured ethics, and enlarged civil wisdom, admirably adapted to promote and secure the freedom and happiness of social life.
Página 558 - Green Lane. Since that day not a single one has passed, not to speak of nights, in which you have not engrossed more of my thoughts than I could have wished.
Página 588 - Mr Brougham's mountain is delivered, and behold ! — the mouse. The wisdom of the reformer could not overcome the craft of the lawyer. Mr Brougham, after all, is not the man to set up a simple, natural, and rational administration of justice against the entanglements and technicalities of our English law proceedings.
Página 498 - In Ricardo's book on Rent, there is a want of logic. I wanted him to correct it in these particulars ; but he was not conscious of it, and Mill was not desirous. He confounded cost with value.
Página 481 - I have considered that there was nobody at all so likely to be your real successor as myself. Of talents it would be easy to find many superior. But, in the first place, I hardly know of anybody who has so completely taken up the principles, and is so thoroughly of the same way of thinking with yourself. In the next place, there are very few who have so much of the necessary previous discipline ; my antecedent years having been wholly occupied in acquiring it. And, in the last place, I am pretty...
Página 479 - ... in writing upon laws and legislation, and in composing his Civil and Criminal Codes ; and spending the remaining hours of every day in reading, or taking exercise by way of fitting himself for his labours, or, to use his own strangely invented phraseology, taking his ante-jentacular and postprandial walks, to prepare himself for his task of codification.
Página 507 - I am a single man, turned of seventy ; but as far from melancholy as a man need be. Hour of dinner, six ; tea, between nine and ten ; bed, a quarter before eleven. Dinner and tea in society ; breakfast, my guests, whoever they are, have at their own hour, and by themselves ; my breakfast, of which a newspaper, read to me to save my weak eyes, forms an indispensable part, I take by myself. Wine I drink none, being, in i that particular, of the persuasion of Jonadab the son of Rechab.
Página 468 - I hope the day is not far distant, when I shall see the liberty and happiness of this country established upon a solid and permanent footing. The appointment I have just received of Generalissimo of the Confederation of Venezuela, with full powers to treat with foreign nations, &c., will perhaps facilitate the means of promoting the object I have for so many years had in view.