 | Joseph Priestley - 1771 - 330 pągines
...13 not, that all people live in fociety for their mutual advantage ; fo that the good and happinefs of the members, that is the majority of the members of any ftate, is the great ftandard by which every thing relating to that ftate muft finally be determined.... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1807 - 788 pągines
...support and approbation ought to be tried-' His .leading principle is, ' that the good 394 1807.] 395 and happiness of the members, that is the majority...thing, relating to that state, must be determined.' This principle Mr. C. represents as almost the peculiar discovery of Dr. P., when certainly it is known... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 pągines
...their claims to publick support and approbation ought to be tried.' His leading principle is, « that the good and happiness of the members, that is the...thing, relating to that state, must be determined.' This principle Mr. C. represents as almost the peculiar discovery of Dr. P., when certainly it is known... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1813 - 530 pągines
...whether it be expressed or not, that all people live in society for their mutual advantage : so that the good and happiness of the members, that is, the...by which every thing relating to that state must be finally determined ; and though it m;iy be supposed that a body of people may be bound by a voluntary... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1813 - 514 pągines
...whether it be expressed or not, that all people hve in society for their mutual advantage: so that the good and happiness of the members, that is, the...standard by which every thing relating to that state ' musf be finally determined; and though it may be supposed that a body of people may be bound by a... | |
 | 1843 - 498 pągines
...whether it be expressed or not, that all people live in society for their mutual advantage ; so that the good and happiness of the members, that is, the...standard by which every thing relating to that state must finally be determined. And though it may be supposed, that a body of people may be bound by a voluntary... | |
 | John Towill Rutt - 1831 - 450 pągines
...imperfect recollection after so long an interval, the following might have been the passage designed : " The good and happiness of the members, that is, the...standard by which every thing relating to that state must finally be determined." W. XXII. 13. Afterwards, the " Essay" was exposed to the animadversion of Dean... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 274 pągines
...whether it be expressed or not, that all people live in society for their mutual advantage; so that the good and happiness of the members, that is, the...standard by which every thing relating to that state must finally be determined. And though it may be supposed that a body of people may be bound by a voluntary... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pągines
...whether it be expressed or not, that all people live in society for their mutual advantage ; so that the good and happiness of the members, that is, the...standard by which every thing relating to that state must finally be determined. And though it may be supposed that a body of people may be bound by a voluntary... | |
 | 1879 - 674 pągines
...but thinks that Bentham must have referred to the following lines in the Essay on Government, 1768: " The good and happiness of the members, that is, the...members, of any state is the great standard by which everything relating to that state must finally be determined." This I think can scarcely be the passage... | |
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Hence the good and happiness of the members — that is, the majority of the members — of any state, is the great standard by which everything relating to that state must finally be determined... 
