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[ ENGLISH ESSAYS]
... violently attached to your respective masters, yet I, who profess myself only attached to truth, see no reason why I may not as freely animadvert on Mr. Locke or Sir Isaac Newton, as they would on Aristotle or Descartes. Certainly the more extensive the influence of any error, and the ...
[ MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
... I shall be indulged with some few reflections upon the danger of permitting the conduct on which it has been my painful duty to animadvert, to pass without the solemn expression of the disapprobation of this House. Recall to your recollection the free nations which have gone before us. Where ...
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... it a challenge to God, an outrage on religion, and generally conceive the honour of Heaven is attacked by any contradiction of themselves. To animadvert upon the actions of a Bishop''s nephew is as bad as heresy -- far worse than simony -- and the man who does it cannot but be ...
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... done a therefore many's the good time and often." "Your worship is pleased to be jocular," answered the parson; "but I do not only animadvert on the sinfulness of the action- though that surely is to be greatly deprecated- but I fear his unrighteousness may injure him with Mr. Allworthy. ...
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... in the most inveterate manner; nay, he had probably committed violence with his hands, had not the parson interposed, saying, "For heaven's sake, sir, animadvert that you are in the house of a great lady. Let me beg you to mitigate your wrath; it should minister a fulness of satisfaction ...
[ ENGLISH ESSAYS]
... life and character. For his descriptions of Germany, France, and England, see l. ii. p. 36, 37, 44 - 50.] [Footnote 23: I shall not animadvert on the geographical errors of Chalcondyles. In this instance, he perhaps followed, and mistook, Herodotus, (l. ii. c. 33,) whose text may be explained, (Herodote ...
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... never before ventured to ravish from his disdainful captive, resorted her to life and perception. The confusion of Imogen did not allow her to animadvert upon his freedoms. She had the utmost confidence in the person whose form he wore, and the guileless simplicity of pastoral life is accustomed to ...
[ GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIC WORKS - IN OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES]
... of truth and of God;" and that universal consent cannot convert wrong into right. The most insignificant individual ought to hold himself free to animadvert upon the decisions of the most august assembly; and other men are bound in justice to listen to him, in proportion to the soundness of ...
[ GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIC WORKS - IN OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES]
... to the general interest. In the eye of reason, human nature is capable of no other guilt than this.(2*) Society is authorized to animadvert upon a certain individual, in the case of murder, for example, not because he has done an action that he might have avoided, not because ...
[ GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIC WORKS - IN OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES]
... But this is not all. The motive, when ascertained, is a subordinate part of the question. The point upon which only society can equitably animadvert, if it had any jurisdiction in the case, is a point, if possible, still more inscrutable inscrutable than that of which we have been treating. ...
[ GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIC WORKS - IN OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES]
... said upon the uncertainty of crime tends to aggravate the injustice of punishment for the sake of example. Since the crime upon which I animadvert in one man can never be the same as the crime of another, it is as if I should award a grievous penalty against persons ...
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