 | David Hume - 1804 - 552 pàgines
...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that PERSONAL MERIT consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself, or to others. It might be expected that this principle would have occurred ey^aM^f the first rude unpractised... | |
 | Levi Frisbie - 1823 - 310 pàgines
...evident, in any degree alter our sentiments with regard to the merit of him who has bestowed it. No actual correspondence of sentiments, therefore, is...think, to the opposite objection, that it excludes from merit many actions, which the common judgment of mankind has agreed to consider as possessing that... | |
 | Levi Frisbie - 1823 - 310 pàgines
...concerned is incapable of being affected. There is a similar difference between our disapprobatioa of demerit, and that of impropriety.' Merit, according...think, to the opposite objection, that it excludes from merit many actions, which the common judgment of mankind has agreed to consider as possessing that... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 626 pàgines
...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that PERSONAL MERIT consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself, or to others. It might be expected that this principle would have occurred even to the first rude unpractised... | |
 | Ernst Reinhold - 1829 - 612 pàgines
...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that personal merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself, or to other. a) 1. c. pag. 323. These two requisite circumstances belong alone to the sentiment of humanity... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 pàgines
...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that PERSONAL MERIT consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself, or to others. It might be expected that this principle would have occurred even to the first rude unpractised... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1855 - 512 pàgines
...foundation of their merit ? " He had previously declared, that "personal merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities useful or agreeable to the person VravseK, or to others." On this others, more trustworthy, holding up utility as the only safe criterion... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pàgines
...qualities, he arrives by an inductive process at the conclusion that "Personal Merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others." lie then resumes a consideration suggested at the outset (117) 17 of his work, with respect... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - 1892 - 674 pàgines
...evolution. With admirable clearness and directness of illustration, he shows that Virtue, or personal merit, consists in the possession of mental qualities useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others. Not that men's approbation of these qualities rests upon an elaborate calculation of personal... | |
 | David Hume - 1902 - 419 pàgines
...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that Personal Merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others. It might be expected that this principle would have occurred even to the first rude, unpractised... | |
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IT may justly appear surprising that any man in so late an age, should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that Personal Merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others. 
