 | David Hume - 1804 - 552 sider
...pecuniary advantage. Inward peace of mind, consciousness of integrity, a satisfactory review of our own conduct; these are circumstances very requisite to...every honest man, who feels the importance of them. Such a one has, besides, the frequent satisfaction of seeing knaves, with all their pretended cunning... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 556 sider
...pecuniary advantage. Inward peace of mind, consciousness of integrity, a satisfactory review of our own conduct; these are circumstances very requisite to...every honest man, who feels the importance of them. Such a one has, besides, the frequent satisfaction of seeing knaves, with all their pretended cunning... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1822 - 322 sider
...pecuniary advantage. Inward peace of mind, consciousness of integrity, a satisfactory review of our own conduct ; these are circumstances very requisite to...every honest man who feels the importance of them." The reasoning of the sensible knave in this passage, seems to me to be justly founded upon the principles... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 526 sider
...M;C of mind, consciousness of integrity, a satisiry review of our own conduct ; these are circumstan very requisite to happiness, and will be cherished...every honest man who feels the importance of them. Such a one has, besides, the frequent satisfaction of seeing knaves, with all their pretended cunning... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 sider
...review of our own conduct : these are circumstances very requisite to happiness, and will be cherish«! and cultivated by every honest man who feels the importance of them." The reasoning of the sensible knave in this passage seems to me to bo justly founded upon the principles... | |
 | Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 632 sider
...pecuniary advantage. Inward peace of mind, consciousness of integrity, a satisfactory review of our own conduct ; these are circumstances very requisite to...every honest man who feels the importance of them." The reasoning of the sensible knave in this passage, seems to me to be justly founded upon the principles... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 sider
...pecuniary advantage. Inward peace of mind, consciousness of integrity, a satisfactory review of our own conduct, these are circumstances very requisite to...every honest man who feels the importance of them. Such a one has, besides, the frequent satisfaction of seeing knaves, with all their pretended cunning... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1855 - 512 sider
...virtues fails to meet its appropriate reward, or when, in solitary instances, knavery or indoeondnet, these are circumstances very requisite to happiness,...every honest man who feels the importance of them. " Such a one has, besides, the frequent satisfaction of seeing knaves, with nil their pretended cunning... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1863 - 552 sider
...pecuniary advantage. Inward peace of mind, consciousness of integrity, a satisfactory review of our own conduct — these are circumstances very requisite...every honest man who feels the importance of them." [418] The reasoning of the sensih/e knave in this passage, seems to me to be justly founded upon the... | |
 | David Hume - 1902 - 419 sider
...pecuniary advantage. Inward peace of mind, consciousness of integrity, a satisfactory review of our own conduct ; these are circumstances, very requisite...every honest man, who feels the importance of them. Such- a one has, besides, the frequent satisfaction of seeing knaves, with all their pretended cunning... | |
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But in all ingenuous natures the antipathy to treachery and roguery is too strong to be counterbalanced by any views of profit or pecuniary advantage. Inward peace of mind, consciousness of integrity, a satisfactory review of our own conduct, these are... 
