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第 348 頁 - Mayne, like a shewer from the South to the North, and from the North to the West, and then downe to the South againe.
第 xiv 頁 - I had a letter from him a few days ago, wherein he tells me that my name was much oftener in the manuscript, but that the censor of books at Paris obliged him to strike it out. Voltaire has lately published a small work called Candide, ou rOptimisme.
第 196 頁 - ... may be, it must yet appear demonstrative; for, say they, to what cause can be attributed the great disproportion of intellects observable between people who appear to have had the same education? In order to reply to this objection, it is proper first to inquire, whether several men can, strictly speaking, have the same education ; and for this purpose to fix the idea included in the word Education. If by education we merely understand that received in the same places, and under the same masters;...
第 xix 頁 - It is by facts that I have ascended to causes. I imagined that morality ought to be treated like all the other sciences, and founded on experiment as well as natural philosophy.
第 178 頁 - ... in the practice of actions useful to the greater number, it is evident that justice is in its own nature always armed with a power sufficient to suppress vice, and place men under the necessity of being virtuous.
第 233 頁 - Cordileras, placing his instruments in the midst of snows and frost; which conducts the botanist to the brinks of precipices in quest of plants; which anciently carried the juvenile lovers of the sciences into Egypt, Ethiopia, and even into the Indies, for visiting the most celebrated philosophers, and acquiring from their conversation the principles of their doctrine. How strongly did this passion exert itself in Demosthenes, who, for perfecting his pronunciation, used every day to stand on the...
第 162 頁 - If a sage descended from Heaven, and in his conduct consulted only the light of reason, he would universally pass for a fool. He would be, as Socrates says, like a physician whom the pastry-cooks accused before a tribunal of children of forbidding pie« and t in -. He would certainly be condemned.
第 276 頁 - The least fault a man in distress commits ua sufficient pretence for the rich to refuse him all assistance ; they would have the unhappy entirely perfect.
第 124 頁 - ... principle which explained the behaviour of the heavenly bodies. So we can see how Bentham as an ardent student of Helvetius found the principles determining the ends and the principles describing the means both ready and waiting for him. So also was the project formed by their combination. Helvetius claims 'that all men tend only towards their happiness, that it is a tendency from which they cannot be diverted; that the attempt would be fruitless, and even the success dangerous; consequently,...
第 186 頁 - Maxima, 1, 207, 240, 301. to condemn that miserable so-called philosophy which tells us that "a physical sensibility has produced in us a love of pleasure and hatred of pain ; that pleasure and pain have at length produced and opened in all hearts the buds of self-love, which, by unfolding themselves, give birth to the passions whence spring all our virtues and vices...