 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1809 - 532 pages
...prend dans ses jugements conseil que de son inte're't.' — Helve'tius De V Esprit, discours ii , ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. .... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Ethics - 1833 - 378 pages
...first paragraphs of his " Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation," he maintains that "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On... | |
 | Great Britain - 1833 - 490 pages
...and comprehensive view of the great practical principle which directed all Mr. Bentham's efforts. " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure : these two masters govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think. It is for these sovereign... | |
 | Great Britain - 1833 - 492 pages
...and comprehensive view of the great practical principle which directed all Mr. Bentham's efforts. " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure : these two masters govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think. It is for these sovereign... | |
 | Thomas Browne Browne - Absentee landlordism - 1838 - 274 pages
...on religion. He begins his " Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation" thus: — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." *... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1891 - 580 pages
...aholished, ' must ' reigns without restriction ; for it is the same writer who magisterially asserts that ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is lor them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 334 pages
...INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGISLATION. CHAPTER I. Or THE PRINCIPLE OP UTILITY. UATDEE has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 258 pages
...labour through provocation and disgust.—Priestley. Mankind governed by Pain and Pleasure.—Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...through provocation and disgust. — Priestley. 4 DLXIX. Mankind governed by Pain and Pleasure. — Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1850 - 368 pages
...theory, also, ns to the basis of moral obligation, ninv be learned by two characteristic passages: — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. Jt is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. Un... | |
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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. 
