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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. "
Elements of Ethics - Page 183
by Noah Knowles Davis - 1900 - 294 pages
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Volume 16

1795 - 612 pages
...it : « Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two fovereign mafters, fa;a and ffeaj'urc. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we (hail do. On the one hand ihr ftandard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of caufes and effects,...
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History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, Volume 1

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 pages
...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...ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. . . . The principle of utility recognises this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary

1833 - 492 pages
...two masters govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think. It is for these sovereign masters to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. This their authority is secured in and by our very nature as sentient beings. Sentient beings are impelled...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 17

1833 - 490 pages
...two masters govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think. It is for these sovereign masters to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. This their authority is secured in and by our very nature as sentient beings. Sentient beings are impelled...
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Thoughts of the times; or, Men and things

Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - 274 pages
...his " Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation" thus: — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain...to do, as well as to determine what we shall do." * It cannot fail to strike every reader of common intelligence, that, in thus dogmatically laying the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 172

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1891 - 580 pages
...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 the one...
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The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the ..., Volume 2

John Taylor - 1839 - 258 pages
...provocation and disgust.—Priestley. Mankind governed by Pain and Pleasure.—Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain...one hand, the standard of right and wrong; on the otller, the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do,...
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Cicero's three books of offices ... also his Cato major ... Lælius ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 pages
...of moral obligation, may be learned by two characteristic passages: — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain...causes and effects are fastened to their throne."- — " Bentham's Introd. of Morals," vol. 1, c. 1. And again: — "But is it never, then, from any other...
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Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 368 pages
...— " 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 the one hand, the standard of right and wroii^; on the other, the cha.n of causes and effects are...
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Cicero's Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 374 pages
...may be learned by two characteristic passages : — " Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is...causes and effects are fastened to their throne." — " Bentham's Introd. • of Morals," vol. 1. c. 1. And again : — " But is it never then, from...
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