 | David Hume - Economics - 1804 - 552 pages
...kindness the only check, by which they curb our lawless will : And as no inconvenience ever results from the exercise of a power, so firmly established...place in so unequal a confederacy. This is plainly the situation of men with regard to animals ; and how far tliese may be said to possess reason, I leave... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 556 pages
...kindness the only check, by which they curb our lawless will: And as no inconvenience ever resultsfrom the exercise of a power, so firmly established in...place in so unequal a confederacy. This is plainly the situation of men with regard to animals ; and how far these may be said to possess reason, I leave... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1822 - 322 pages
...of Mr. Hobbes. And to illustrate this doctrine, Mr. Hume adds, that as no inconvenience ever results from the exercise of a power, so firmly established...restraints of justice and property being totally useless, could never have place in so unequal a confederacy ; and, to the same purpose, he says, that the female... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 628 pages
...kindness the only check by which they curb our lawless will : And as no inconvenience ever results from the exercise of a power so firmly established...place in so unequal a confederacy. This is plainly the situation of men with regard to animals ; and how far these may be said to possess reason, I leave... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Act (Philosophy). - 1827 - 706 pages
...of Mr. Hobbcs. And to illustrate this doctrine, Mr. Hume adds, That as no inconvenience ever results from the exercise of a power, so firmly established...restraints of justice and property being totally useless, could never have place in so unequal a confederacy ; and, to the same purpose, he says, that the female... | |
 | Woman - Women - 1840 - 806 pages
...kindness the only check by which they curb our lawless will : and as no inconvenience ever results from the exercise of a power so firmly established...place in so unequal a confederacy. " This is plainly the situation of men with regard to animals, and how far these may be said to possess reason, I leave... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...kindness the only check by which they curb our lawless will : and as no inconvenience ever results from the exercise of a power so firmly established...place in so unequal a confederacy. This is plainly the situation of men with regard to animals; and how far these may be said to possess reason, I leave... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1863 - 542 pages
...Mr Hobbes. And to illustrate this doctrine, Mr Hume adds — That, as no inconvenience ever results from the exercise of a power so firmly established...restraints of justice and property being totally useless, could never have place in so unequal a confederacy ; and, to the same purpose, he says, that the female... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1902 - 419 pages
...omnes.' Pro Sext. §. 42. by which they curb our lawless will : And as no inconvenience ever results from the exercise of a power, so firmly established...would never have place in so unequal a confederacy. Y This is plainly the situation of men, with regard to / animals ; and how far these may be said to... | |
 | Larry Alexander - History - 1985 - 332 pages
...under any restraint of justice with regard to them, nor could they possess any right or property, . . . the restraints of justice and property, being totally useless, would never have place in so unequal a confederacy.8" However it may be with "the laws of humanity," an adequate philosophy of justice for... | |
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... the one side, and servile obedience on the other. Whatever we covet, they must instantly resign. Our permission is the only tenure by which they hold their possessions : Our compassion and kindness the only check by which they curb our lawless will... 
