 | 1873 - 532 páginas
...of making a man choose the good ralher than the bad, and the pleasant rather than the disagreeable. It is the same principle that induces the law to exempt...reason, be expected to prevail against the fear of present suffering, Were it more generally understood — were it more thoroughly appreciated — that... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour Browne - 1871 - 372 páginas
...of making a man choose the good rather than the bad, and the pleasant rather than the disagreeable. It is the same principle that induces the law to exempt...reason be expected to prevail against the fear of present suffering. Were it more generally understood—were it more thoroughly appreciated—that it... | |
 | John Hutton Balfour Browne - 1880 - 722 páginas
...than the bad, and the pleasant rather than the disagreeable. § 18. Principle of Law illustrated. — It is the same principle that induces the law to exempt...reason be expected to prevail against the fear of present suffering. Were it more generally understood — were it more thoroughly appreciated — that... | |
 | Medico-Legal Society, Medico-Legal Society of New York - 1882 - 566 páginas
...of making a man choose the good rather than the bad, and the pleasant rather than the disagreeable. "It is the same principle that induces the law to...reason, be expected to prevail against the fear of present suffering. " Were it more generally understood — were it more thoroughly appreciated —... | |
 | David Dudley Field - 1884 - 532 páginas
...making a man choose the good rather than the bad, and the pleasant rather than the disagreeable. " It is the same principle that induces the law to exempt...inasmuch as the dread of distantly future penalties can not, in reason, be expected to prevail against the fear of present suffering. " Were it more generally... | |
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... be added where, through such enfeeblement or derangement, motives have lost their power of making a man choose the good rather than the bad, and the pleasant rather than the disagreeable. It is the same principle that induces the law to exempt very... 