starving man may justify, in his own eyes, the fact of his stealing a loaf on the ground that imperious necessity impelled him thereto ; but such an argument cannot, in a moral point of view, justify his violation of the law, which remains as positive,... Letters on England - Página 92por Jean Joseph Louis Blanc - 1866Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| United States. Department of State - 1862 - 452 páginas
...interested of their money for that space of time, which is a dead loss of so much value to them. A starving man may justify, in his own eyes, the fact...sentimentality, as if the crime had not had an excuse. If he was actually starving, he should have first asked the baker to assuage his hunger, but doing... | |
| United States. Department of State - 1862 - 456 páginas
...the forbearance of your creditors, in order to obtain their consent to what you were about to do. A starving man may justify, in his own eyes, the fact...sentimentality, as if the crime had not had an excuse. If he was actually starving, he should have first asked the baker to assuage his hunger, but doing... | |
| 1863 - 652 páginas
...a loaf, on the ground that imperious neeessity impelled him thereto ; but sueh an argument eannot, in a moral point of view, justify his violation of the law, whieh remains as positive apart from all sentimentality as if the erime had not had an exeuse. If he... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1864 - 596 páginas
...Sir Charles Wyko argued the question admirably as a moral philosopher. " A stan ing man," he wrote, " may justify in his own eyes the fact of his stealing...necessity impelled him thereto ; but such an argument can not, in a moral point of view, justify his violation of the law, which remains as positive apart... | |
| George Earl Church - 1866 - 84 páginas
...destined for the diplomatic convention and the London debt." Sir Charles Wyke, in ^his answer, said : " A starving man may justify in his own eyes the fact...ground that imperious necessity impelled him thereto." The retort of the Mexican Minister was apt : " It would be rather that of a father overwhelmed with... | |
| Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - 1868 - 1442 páginas
...creditors, in order to obtain their consent to what you were about to do. A starving man may justify, iu his own eyes, the fact of his stealing a loaf on the...necessity impelled him thereto ; but such an argument caunot, in a moral point of view, justify his violation of the law, which remains as positive, apart... | |
| Friedrich Engels - 1919 - 490 páginas
...own eyes, the fact of stealing a loaf on the ground that imperious necessity impelled him there to ; but such an argument cannot, in a moral point of view,...sentimentality, as if the crime had not had an excuse. If he was actually starving, he should have first asked the baker to assuage his hunger, but doing... | |
| Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - 1868 - 1434 páginas
...the forbearance of your creditors, in order to obtain their consent to what you were about to do. A starving man may justify, in his own eyes, the fact...sentimentality, as if the crime had not had an excuse. If he was actually starving, he should have first asked the baker to assuage his hunger, but doing... | |
| Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - 1868 - 1436 páginas
...consent to what you were about to do. A starving man may justify, in his own eyes, the fact of liis stealing a loaf on the ground that imperious necessity...sentimentality, as if the crime had not had an excuse. If he was actually starving, he should have first asked the baker to assuage his hunger, but doing... | |
| 1862 - 858 páginas
...interested of their money for that »рясе of time, which is a dead loss of so much value to them. A starving man may justify, in his own eyes, the fact...sentimentality, as if the crime had not had an excuse. If he was actually starviiig, he should have first asked the baker to assuage his hunger, but doing... | |
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