 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...be avoided. Whatever may be urged by casuists or politicians, the greater part of mankind, as they can never think that to pick the pocket and to pierce...tender, and the just, will always scruple to concur with the community in an act which their private judgement cannot approve. He who knows not how often... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 514 pages
...be avoided. Whatever may be urged by casuists or politicians, the greater part of mankind, as they can never think that to pick the pocket and to pierce...tender, and the just, will always scruple to concur with the community in an act which their private judgment cannot approve. He who knows not how often... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 490 pages
...be avoided. Whatever may be urged by casuists or politicians, the greater part of mankind, as they can never think that to pick the pocket and to pierce...stated, or so generally allowed, but that the pious, T 2 the tender, and the just, will always scruple to concur with the community in an act which their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 458 pages
...be avoided. Whatever may.be urged by casuists or politicians, the greater partr of mankind, as they can never think that to pick the pocket and to pierce...stated, or so generally allowed, but that the pious, T 2 the tender, and the just, will always scruple to concur with the community in au act which their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 468 pages
...be avoided. Whatever may be urged by casuists or politicians, the greater part of mankind, as they can never think that to pick the pocket and to pierce...nor is the necessity of submitting the conscience to x 2 human laws so plainly evinced, so clearly stated, or so generally allowed, but that the pious,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...be avoided. Whatever may be urged" by casuists or politicians, the greater part of mankind, as they can never think that to pick the pocket and to pierce...tender, and the just, will always scruple to concur with the community in an act which their private judgment cannot approve. He who knows not how often... | |
 | Samuel Parr - 1828 - 796 pages
...may be urged," says Dr. Johnson, " by casuists or politicians, the greater part of mankind, sa they can never think that to pick the pocket and to pierce...tender, and the just, will always scruple to concur with the community in an act which their private judgment cannot approve." f When punishments shall... | |
 | William Field - 1828 - 508 pages
...observes, " that the necessity of submitting the conscience to human laws is not so plainly evinced, nor so generally allowed, but that the pious, the tender, and the just will always scruple to concur with them, in an act, which private judgment condemns."1 — Dr.Parr thus feelingly and forcibly explains... | |
 | William Field - 1828 - 518 pages
...observes, " that the necessity of submitting the conscience to human laws is not so plainly evinced, nor so generally allowed, but that the pious, the tender, and the just will always scruple to concur with them, in an act, which private judgment condemns." ' —Dr. Parr thus feelingly and forcibly explains... | |
 | 1832 - 508 pages
...Johnson says, " Whatever may be urged by casuists or politicians, the greater part of mankind, as they can never think that to pick the pocket and to pierce the heart are equally criminal, will scarcely believe that two malefactors so different in guilt can be justly... | |
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... therefore, rarely hinders the commission of a crime, but naturally and commonly prevents its detection, and is, if we proceed only upon prudential principles, chiefly for that reason to be avoided. Whatever may be urged by casuists or politicians,... 
