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It is most unplausible to have to justify my obedience to a generally advantageous moral law by saying that the indirect evil effects which would be produced by my bad example if I disobeyed the law would be worse than the direct good ...
It is most unplausible to have to justify my obedience to a generally advantageous moral law by saying that the indirect evil effects which would be produced by my bad example if I disobeyed the law would be worse than the direct good ...
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The failure of historians to comprehend or at least to represent the more terrible virtues and the more terrible vices is not as obvious today as it was thirty years ago - when one could read , for example , book after book about the ...
The failure of historians to comprehend or at least to represent the more terrible virtues and the more terrible vices is not as obvious today as it was thirty years ago - when one could read , for example , book after book about the ...
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All these examples have to do with a major problem of organization , the layout ( or dispositio ) of a poem as a whole , or of a large part of it ; and more than ... For my first example I turn once again to the Book of the Duchess .
All these examples have to do with a major problem of organization , the layout ( or dispositio ) of a poem as a whole , or of a large part of it ; and more than ... For my first example I turn once again to the Book of the Duchess .
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Contents
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir H I Bell | 15 |
ALESSANDRO MANZONI Italian Lecture By A P dEntrèves | 23 |
MORAL PRINCIPLES AND INDUCTIVE POLICIES Philosophical | 51 |
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