Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen4A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... evidence is observation and experience : and to that evidence I appeal ; entering only a caveat , that , for the rea fon above given , the inquiry be confined to enlightened nations . In the mean time , I take liberty to fuggeft an ...
... evidence is observation and experience : and to that evidence I appeal ; entering only a caveat , that , for the rea fon above given , the inquiry be confined to enlightened nations . In the mean time , I take liberty to fuggeft an ...
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... evidence , that men frequently act for the fake of o- thers , without regarding themselves , and fometimes in direct oppofition to their own ( a ) Lord Shaftesbury . ( b ) Helvetius . interest intereft * . And however much felfishness ...
... evidence , that men frequently act for the fake of o- thers , without regarding themselves , and fometimes in direct oppofition to their own ( a ) Lord Shaftesbury . ( b ) Helvetius . interest intereft * . And however much felfishness ...
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... evidence , that morality formerly had very little influence when opposed by revenge . There is no moral principle more evident , than that punish- ment cannot be inflicted with justice but upon the guilty ; and yet in Greece , the ...
... evidence , that morality formerly had very little influence when opposed by revenge . There is no moral principle more evident , than that punish- ment cannot be inflicted with justice but upon the guilty ; and yet in Greece , the ...
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... evidence in the two tragedies of Oedipus ; the first taking it for granted , that a crime confifts entirely in the external act and its consequences ; the other holding intention to be indif- penfable . Oedipus had killed his father ...
... evidence in the two tragedies of Oedipus ; the first taking it for granted , that a crime confifts entirely in the external act and its consequences ; the other holding intention to be indif- penfable . Oedipus had killed his father ...
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... evidence to vouch fo abfurd a law ; and I have the ftrongest , viz . the act 52 ° Henry III . cap . 26. converting the capital punishment in- to a forfeiture of moveables . The fame abfurdity continued much longer to be law in Scotland ...
... evidence to vouch fo abfurd a law ; and I have the ftrongest , viz . the act 52 ° Henry III . cap . 26. converting the capital punishment in- to a forfeiture of moveables . The fame abfurdity continued much longer to be law in Scotland ...
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