Essays on Human Rights, and Their Political GuarantiesFowlers and Wells, 1848 - 249 páginas |
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... gratification , human wisdom has but one work to perform , and that is , to reduce the means of happiness to possession according to the natural design . Man , then , must know himself , and his true relation to his fellow - men and to ...
... gratification , human wisdom has but one work to perform , and that is , to reduce the means of happiness to possession according to the natural design . Man , then , must know himself , and his true relation to his fellow - men and to ...
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... gratification.- From this we infer the right to its indulgence - and hence , also , the rights of man . Man has a right to the gratification , indulgence , and exer- cise of every innate power and faculty of his mind . The ex- ercise of ...
... gratification.- From this we infer the right to its indulgence - and hence , also , the rights of man . Man has a right to the gratification , indulgence , and exer- cise of every innate power and faculty of his mind . The ex- ercise of ...
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... gratification are abundant . To create a being with wants which could not be gratified , would have argued the absence of benevolence ; but to create a being whose very wants should be a source of hap- piness , through their abundant ...
... gratification are abundant . To create a being with wants which could not be gratified , would have argued the absence of benevolence ; but to create a being whose very wants should be a source of hap- piness , through their abundant ...
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... gratification , it becomes not man to deny that in some form indulgence is lawful . A strong natural desire , denied its appropriate indulgence , is a source of constant mis- ery . Why the universal desire , unless it be lawful ? Nature ...
... gratification , it becomes not man to deny that in some form indulgence is lawful . A strong natural desire , denied its appropriate indulgence , is a source of constant mis- ery . Why the universal desire , unless it be lawful ? Nature ...
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... gratify the feeling are every where scattered in the most profuse abundance . What are the flowers that deck the fields , combining perfect elegance of form with the most exquisite loveliness , delicacy and harmony of tint , but objects ...
... gratify the feeling are every where scattered in the most profuse abundance . What are the flowers that deck the fields , combining perfect elegance of form with the most exquisite loveliness , delicacy and harmony of tint , but objects ...
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acquisition animal artificial person benevolence citizen civil claim common law confer consent Constitution contract corporation Court Creator crime criminal debt declare defence demand desire divine duties eminent domain enact endowed enlightened equal exclusive exercise existence faculties favor feelings George Combe gratification happiness hath honor human rights husband individual inflicted injury instinct intelligent justice labor lature Legislature liberty limited man's mankind marital rights marriage means ment mental mind mode moral and intellectual natural laws natural rights necessity New-York object offence opinion ordained organization party pecuniary Penal Law perceive person Phrenological phrenologist possession present principle prisoner proper protection punishment question reason regard religion religious remedy restraint right of property sacred says secure sense Sir William Blackstone social body society statute statute of Ann surrender thing tion true tyranny vote wants wealth wife woman wrong
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Página 158 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Página 228 - ... dollars ; and the moneys arising from the loans creating such debts, shall be applied to the purpose for which they were obtained, or to repay the debt so contracted, and to no other purpose whatever.
Página 228 - The legislature may at any time, after the approval of such law by the people, if no debt shall have been contracted in pursuance thereof, repeal the same; and may at any time, by law, forbid the contracting of any further debt or liability, under such law ; but the tax imposed by such act, in proportion to the debt and liability which may have been contracted, in pursuance of such law, shall remain in force and be irrepealable, and be annually collected, until the proceeds thereof shall have made...
Página 191 - In this and similar cases the legislature alone can, and indeed frequently does, interpose, and compel the individual to acquiesce. But how does it interpose and compel ? Not by absolutely stripping the subject of his property in an arbitrary manner ; but by giving him a full indemnification and equivalent for the injury thereby sustained.
Página 171 - The labour of his body and the work of his hands we may say are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Página 228 - ... sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such debt within eighteen years from the time of the contracting thereof.
Página 228 - ... election. On the final passage of such bill in either house of the legislature, the question shall be taken by ayes and noes, to be duly entered on the journals thereof, and shall be : " Shall this bill pass, and ought the same to receive the sanction of the people...
Página 84 - AND WHEREAS the ministers of the gospel, are by their profession dedicated to the service of God and the cure of souls, and ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their function; therefore no minister of the gospel, or priest of any denomination whatsoever, shall at any time hereafter, under any pretence or description whatever, be eligible to, or capable of holding any civil or military office or place, within this State.
Página 228 - In addition to the above limited power to contract debts, the State may contract debts to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the State In war ; but the money arising from the contracting of such debts shall be applied to the purpose for which it was raised, or to repay such debts, and to no other purpose whatever.
Página 74 - DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes...