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| Émile Edmond Saisset - 1863 - 328 str.
...extreme statement. "There are two ways in which the subject may be treated. One begins from enquiring into the abstract relations of things ; the other...fact, namely, what the particular nature of man is. The first seems the most direct formal proof ; the latter is in a peculiar manner adapted to satisfy... | |
| Émile Edmond Saisset - 1863 - 338 str.
...extreme statement. "There are two ways in which the subject may be treated. One begins from enquiring into • the abstract relations of things ; the other...fact, namely, what the particular nature of man is. The first seems the most direct formal proof ; the latter is in a peculiar manner adapted to satisfy... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1864 - 566 str.
...treated. One begins from inquiring into the abstract relations of things : the other from a mattfic. of fact^ namely, what the particular nature of man is, its several parts, their economy or consti1 The Preface stands exactly as it did before the second edition of the Sermons. tution ; from... | |
| William Watson English - 1865 - 190 str.
...his Sermons : — ' There are two ways in which the subject of morals may be treated. One begins from inquiring into the abstract relations of things; the...expressed thus — that vice is contrary to the nature and reason of things; in the latter, that it is a violation or breaking in upon our own nature.' Bishop... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1870 - 560 str.
...ethics. For he says, ' There are two ways in which the subject of morals may be treated. One begins from inquiring into the abstract relations of things; the...whence it proceeds to determine what course of life it in u-htch is correspondent to this ichule nature? Now, as we shall hereafter more plainly see, these... | |
| 1859 - 446 str.
...time." " There are two ways in which the subject of morals may be treated. One begins from enquiring into the abstract relations of things ; the other...fact, namely, what the particular nature of man is, in its several parts, their economy and constitution ; from whence it proceeds to determine what course... | |
| Denis Caulfield Heron - 1873 - 128 str.
...There are two ways," writes Butler, " in which the subject of morals may be treated. One begins from inquiring into the abstract relations of things ;...expressed thus — that vice is contrary to the nature and reason of things ; in the latter, that it is a violation or breaking in upon our own nature." Of the... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1875 - 408 str.
...three celebrated sermons on Human Nature, " in which the subject of morals may be treated. One begins inquiring into the abstract relations of things ;...it is which is correspondent to this whole nature." As might be expected, from the tendencies of his mind, he selects his latter course. The powers of... | |
| 1878 - 608 str.
...There are two ways," says Butler in the Preface to his Sermons, "in which the subject of morals maybe treated. One begins by inquiring into the abstract...from a matter of fact, namely, what the particular irature of man is, its several parts, their economy or constitution, from whence it proceeds to determine... | |
| Frederick Ryland - 1880 - 192 str.
...morals may be treated. One begins from inquiring into the abstract relations of things [Clarke, etc.]: the other from a matter of fact, namely, what the...it is which is -correspondent to this whole nature [Shaftesbury]. In the former method the conclusion is expressed thus: that vice is contrary to the... | |
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