 ... inconsiderable influence. What is certain, as being rendered so by the above experience (not to mention so many others as might be adduced) is, that, in the application thus supposed to be made of it, the religious principle has no influence. Under...  Translation of Select Speeches of Demosthenes - Stranica 225napisao/la Demosthenes - 1841 - Broj stranica: 283Potpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1827 - Broj stranica: 646
...religious principle has no influence. Under the ceremony of an oath are included, it is to be observed, two very different ties; the moral, and the religious....does actually, in the same event, draw down upon him (as experience proves) the resentment and contempt of mankind. The religious tie is that which stands... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1839 - Broj stranica: 302
...religious principle has no influence. Under the ceremony of an oath are included, it is to be observed, two very different ties, — the moral, and the religious....capable of being made more or less binding upon all men j the other upon such only as are of a particular way of thinking. The same formulary, which undertakes... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1843 - Broj stranica: 602
...religious principle has no influence. Under the ceremony of an oath are included, it is to be observed, two very different ties, — the moral, and the religious....less binding upon all men ; the other upon such only ai are of a particular way of thinking. The same formulary, which undertakes to draw down upon a man... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1843 - Broj stranica: 604
...religious principle has no influence. Under the ceremony of an oath are included, it is to be observed, two very different ties, — the moral, and the religious. The one is capable of being made more or less hinding upon all men ; the other upon such only as are of a particular way of thinking. The same formulary,... | |
 | Demosthenes, Charles Rann Kennedy - 1914 - Broj stranica: 468
...exercised over the judge by the legislature, or over the sheriff by the judge. In the latter ease, the ceremony is a mere form, without any useful effect...undertakes to draw down upon a man the resentment of the Deitv in case of contravention, does actually, in the same event, draw down upon him the resentment... | |
 | Christopher J. W. Allen - 1997 - Broj stranica: 226
...securing the truthfulness of testimony was not the sanction of religion, but that of public opinion. 'The same formulary, which undertakes to draw down...does actually, in the same event, draw down upon him (as experience proves) the resentment and contempt of mankind.' An oath could have a powerful effect,... | |
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