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Page 132
... a very common and acknowledged principle , that abstract reason and general utility are the only test and standard of moral rectitude . If this principle is true , then the system is true but I think that Mr. Godwin's book has done ...
... a very common and acknowledged principle , that abstract reason and general utility are the only test and standard of moral rectitude . If this principle is true , then the system is true but I think that Mr. Godwin's book has done ...
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This is true beauty and true sublimity : it is also true pathos and morality for it interests the mind , and affects it powerfully with the idea of glory tarnished , and happiness forfeited with the loss of virtue : but from the horns ...
This is true beauty and true sublimity : it is also true pathos and morality for it interests the mind , and affects it powerfully with the idea of glory tarnished , and happiness forfeited with the loss of virtue : but from the horns ...
Page 332
It is true , that in compendious treatises for practice , that form is not to be disallowed . But in the true handling of knowledge , men ought not to fall either on the one side into the vein of Velleius the Epicurean ; nil tam metuens ...
It is true , that in compendious treatises for practice , that form is not to be disallowed . But in the true handling of knowledge , men ought not to fall either on the one side into the vein of Velleius the Epicurean ; nil tam metuens ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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