All ideas of justice and injustice, of virtue and vice, of glory and infamy, are purely arbitrary, and dependent on custom. Conscience and remorse are nothing but the foresight of those physical penalties to which crimes expose us. The man who is above... The English Review - Página 151846Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| abbé Barruel (Augustin) - 1798 - 434 páginas
...MORALITY, rality. we mail find FRERET teaching the people, that " all ideas " tf juftice and injujiice, of virtue and vice, of glory and infamy, " are purely arbitrary and dependent on cuftom q ." HELVETIUS will at one time tell us, that the only rule by which virtuous aftions are diftinguiftied... | |
| abbé Barruel (Augustin) - 1799 - 260 páginas
...MORALITY, we fhall l t y. find Freret teaching the people, that " all ideas of juftice and " injuflice, of virtue and vice, of glory and infamy, are purely " arbitrary and dependent on cuftom."JJ Bowlanger tells us decidedly, " That the immortality of the " SoVL, fo far from ftimulating... | |
| Henry Kett - 1800 - 420 páginas
...barbarous, defperate, fatal tenet j afti contrary to all legiflation." " All ideas df juftice and injuftice, of virtue and vice, of glory and infamy, are purely arbitrary, and dependent on cuftom." " Conference and remof fe are nothing but the forefight of thofe phyfical penalties to which... | |
| Henry Kett - 1801 - 400 páginas
...barbarous, defperate, fetal tenet, and contrary to all legiflation." V All ideas of juftice and injuftice, of virtue and vice, of glory and infamy, are purely arbitrary, and dependant on cuftom." " Confcience and remorfe are nothing but the forefight of thofe phyfical penalties... | |
| Charles Buck - 1807 - 508 páginas
...desperate, fatal tenet, '' and contrary to all legislation. " All ideas of justice and in" justice, of 'virtue and vice, of " glory and infamy, are purely " arbitrary, and dependant on " custom. Conscience and re" morse are nothing but the fore" sight of those physical penal"... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 304 páginas
...doctrines by an innocent life, and sealed them 'with bit blood" So much for their form of godliness. " All ideas of justice and injustice, of virtue and vice,...and infamy, are purely arbitrary, and dependent on custom — conscience and remorse are nothing but the foresight of those physical penalties to which... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 592 páginas
...innocent life, and sealed them -with tit blood" So much for their _/-.•••/ of godliness. " All ideas of justice and injustice, of virtue and vice,...and infamy, are purely arbitrary, and dependent on custom — conscience and remorse are nothing but the foresight of those physical penalties to wliich... | |
| Joseph Galloway - 1809 - 406 páginas
...the body that thinks and judges." And respecting the principles of morality they declared, " That all ideas of justice and injustice, of " virtue and vice,...and infamy, are " purely arbitrary, and dependent on custom : " That virtue and honesty, with regard to in " dividuals, is no more than the habit of actions... | |
| Ethan Smith - 1811 - 398 páginas
...whom their order had sworn to crush! And the following sentiments we read 'in their own language. "All ideas of justice and injustice, of virtue and vice,...and infamy, are purely arbitrary, and dependent on custom. The man, who is above law, can commit without remorse the dishonest act, that may serve his... | |
| Thomas Rennell - 1819 - 220 páginas
...ends are both good, " and are sometimes difficult to reconcile." HUME, Essays, vol. ii. p. 389. " All ideas of justice and injustice, of " virtue and vice,...and infamy, are purely arbitrary, " and dependent on custom." FRERET, Letter of Thrasybulus. " It little imports whether men are vicious, if " they be but... | |
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