 | Jeremy Bentham - 1839 - 316 pàgines
...language of pride can furnish, the supposed ignorance and folly of the great body of the people.[| So long as they keep to vague generalities — so...disparity, and to such an amount in favour of modern times, that, in comparison of the lowest class of the people in modern times + For the payment of Mr.... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1843 - 618 pàgines
...people. I So long as they keep to vague generalities — so long as the two objects of comparison arc each of them taken in the lump — wise ancestors...disparity, and to such an amount in favour of modern times, that, in comparison of the lowest class of the people in modern times + For the payment of Mr.... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1843 - 456 pàgines
...are each of them taken in the lump— wise ancestors in one lump, ignorant and foolish mob of modem times in the other, — the weakness of the fallacy...the present one,) but, unless the antecedent period bs, comparatively speaking, a very modern one, so wide will be the disparity, and to such an amount... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1844 - 452 pàgines
...the language of pride can furnish, the supposed ignorance and folly of the great body of the people.* So long as they keep to vague generalities, — so...disparity, and to such an amount in favour of modern times, that, in comparison with the lowest class of the people in modern times, (always supposing them... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1844 - 462 pàgines
...the lump— wise ancestors in one lump, ignorant and foolish mob of modern times in the other,—the weakness of the fallacy may escape detection. Let...disparity, and to such an amount in favour of modern times, that, in comparison with the lowest class of the people in modern times, (always supposing them... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 412 pàgines
...foolish mob of modern times in the other—the weakness of the fallacy may escape detection. But let them assign for the period of superior wisdom any determinate...disparity, and to such an amount in favour of modern times, that, in comparison of the lowest class of the people in modern times, (always supposing them... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pàgines
...mob of modern times in the other — the weakness of the fallacy may escape detection. But let them assign for the period of superior wisdom any determinate...class in that period and the present one), but, unless us ! Fiddlefrig, help us ! Howel, Ethelwolf, t us.' — Any cover tor nonsense — any veil for the... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 368 pàgines
...mob of modern times in the other — the weakness of the fallacy may escape detection. But let them assign for the period of superior wisdom any determinate...whatsoever, not only will the groundlessness of the notion l>c apparent (class being compared with clou in that period and the present one), but, unless the antecedent... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 pàgines
...mobs of modem times in the other — the weakness of the fallacy may escape detection But let them assign for the period of superior wisdom any determinate...compared with class in that period and the present one), buti unless the antecedent period be comparatively speaking a very modern one, so wide will be the... | |
 | 1852 - 498 pàgines
...mob of modern times in the other — the weakness of the fallacy may escape detection. But let them assign for the period of superior wisdom any determinate...disparity, and to such an amount in favour of modern times, that, in comparison of the lowest class of the people in modern times (always supposing them... | |
| |
Let them but assign for the period of superior wisdom any determinate period whatsoever, not only will the groundlessness of the notion be apparent, (class being compared with class in that period and the present one,) but, unless the antecedent period... 
