...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that PERSONAL MERIT consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself, or to others. It might be expected that this principle would have occurred ey^aM^f the first rude unpractised...

...concerned is incapable of being affected. There is a similar difference between our disapprobation of demerit, and that of impropriety. Merit, according...think, to the opposite objection, that it excludes from mer't many actions, which the common judgment of mankind has agreed to consider as possessing that...

...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that PERSONAL MERIT consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself, or to others. It might be expected that this principle would have occurred even to the first rude unpractised...

...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that personal merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself, or to other. a) 1. c. pag. 323. These two requisite circumstances belong alone to the sentiment of humanity...

...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that PERSONAL MERIT consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself, or to others. It might be expected that this principle would have occurred even to the first rude unpractised...

...foundation of their merit ? " He had previously declared, that "personal merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities useful or agreeable to the person VravseK, or to others." On this others, more trustworthy, holding up utility as the only safe criterion...

...qualities, he arrives by an inductive process at the conclusion that "Personal Merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others." lie then resumes a consideration suggested at the outset (117) 17 of his work, with respect...

...evolution. With admirable clearness and directness of illustration, he shows that Virtue, or personal merit, consists in the possession of mental qualities useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others. Not that men's approbation of these qualities rests upon an elaborate calculation of personal...

...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that Personal Merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others. It might be expected that this principle would have occurred even to the first rude, unpractised...

...should find it requisite to prove, by elaborate reasoning, that Personal Merit consists altogether in the possession of mental qualities, useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others. It might be expected that this principle would have occurred even to the f1rst rude, unpractised...