The Works of Jeremy Bentham: Memoirs of BenthamW. Tait, 1843 - Constitutional law |
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Page 66 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Page 68 - ... or the like; therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me ? And if any man should do wrong merely out of...
Page 142 - Priestley was the first (unless it was Beccaria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth : — That the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation
Page 494 - Nay, had she been true, If heaven would make me such another world Of one entire and perfect chrysolite, I'd not have sold her for it.
Page 59 - Of the president's chair, the back parallel to and not far distant from the fire : the chimney-piece projecting a foot or two from that side of the apartment formed a recess, on each side. Alone in the recess, on the left hand of the president, stood Benjamin Franklin, in such position as not to be visible from the situation of the president, remaining the whole time like a rock in the same posture, his head resting on his left hand ; and in that attitude abiding the pelting of the pitiless storm.
Page 558 - Green Lane. Since that day not a single one has passed, not to speak of nights, in which you have not engrossed more of my thoughts than I could have wished.
Page 588 - Mr Brougham's mountain is delivered, and behold ! — the mouse. The wisdom of the reformer could not overcome the craft of the lawyer. Mr Brougham, after all, is not the man to set up a simple, natural, and rational administration of justice against the entanglements and technicalities of our English law proceedings.
Page 559 - In its improved condition in England, and especially in its improved and varied condition in this country, under the benign influence of an expanded commerce, of enlightened justice, of republican principles, and of sound philosophy, the common law has become a code of matured ethics, and enlarged civil wisdom, admirably adapted to promote and secure the freedom and happiness of social life.
Page 116 - Shelburne used frequently to say, ' Tell me what is right and proper — tell me what a man of virtue would do in this matter.
Page 250 - I do not like to look among Panopticon papers. It is like opening a drawer where devils are locked up— it is breaking into a haunted house.— Bentham, Memoirs2 THE Panopticon that so obsessed Jeremy Bentham was the plan of a model prison.