How, it is asked, if the true ground of the moral goodness or badness of actions lies in their utility or the reverse, can we explain the broad distinction drawn by Common Sense between the moral and other parts of our nature?
Impatience will disclose that badness in yourselves, which will make you censured much more; and it will show you as weak in one respect as the censurers are in another.
One of our greatest inconveniences arises from the badness of our roads, and the distance at which we are placed from any village or town where provisions are to be procured.
Moreover, in the two sections of the lots the same principle of equalization of the soil ought to be maintained; the badness and goodness shall be compensated by more and less.
My good friend, be modest; victories and defeats often arise from unknown causes, and afford no proof of the goodness orbadness of institutions.
Each lot shall contain two parts, one at a distance, the other near the city; and the distance of one part shall be compensated by the nearness of the other, the badness and goodness by the greater or less size.
It was not that Ascott showed any unkindness--that there was any actual badness in his bright and handsome young face.
The men who came together attracted by the sweet tones of the rhapsodes soon discovered the badness of the poems and laughed them down.
Blanche Challoner's eyes were suddenly and rudely opened to the badness of the man, and she was aware now how thoroughly unfit he was to become the husband of her sister.
She had become painfully aware of the fact that the man for whom she had chosen to sacrifice herself was bad, but she had not learned all his badness yet.
As the object of this statement was to show that the badness of the bad men was not the fault of the bad men, and as society contains only good men and bad men, it followed that the badness of the bad men was the fault of the good men.
The French writers of the school of '48 used to represent the badness of the bad men as the fault of "society.
To see how completely Vauvenargues rejected the Christian doctrine of the utter decrepitude and hopeless inherent badness of the human mind, we have but to gather some of his sparse thoughts together.
Of the original work Fuller wrote, "It is a book which will be owned for a truth while men have any badness in them, and will be owned as a treasure whilst they have any goodness in them.
He brought me over a box of bonbons; and I complained of thebadness of confectionary in our town.
And the exquisite consolation, when you have ascertained the badness of all fact, in knowing that badness is inferior to goodness, to the end--it only rubs the pessimism in.
For the badness of their provision I had no remedy, but I sent on board a carpenter and six seamen to assist in pumping and working the ship.
Every one in his practical moments acknowledges tacitly, at least, the difference between the intrinsic goodness and badness of experiences.
It is only by thus attributing a sort of goodness and badness to senseless objects that we can aim for and avoid the good and bad phases of conscious life.
So that apart from the existence of consciousness there would be no goodness or badness at all.
There is a chiaroscuro of consciousness, a light and shade of immediate goodness and badness over all our variegated moments.
This kind of goodness and badness we may call extrinsic.
As to the high price of corn during these last ten or twelve years, it can be sufficiently accounted for from the badness of the seasons, without supposing any degradation in the value of silver.
Then he will no more have true opinion than he will have knowledge about the goodness or badnessof his imitations?
The one knows and therefore speaks with authority about the goodness and badness of flutes, while the other, confiding in him, will do what he is told by him?
The governor ascribed the badness of his fare to extreme poverty, yet his vanity exacted from their Jenna messengers the most abject method of salutation, with which they were acquainted.
Owing to the reputed badness of the path, that by which the Landers had entered Yaoorie, was rejected for a more northerly one, leading in almost a direct line to the river Cubbie.
The power is all from above; yet, though we by our goodness do not set the beneficent machinery in motion, we may by our badness cause it all to stand still.
The thorough badness of this judge, although stated distinctly, is stated briefly; it is not made prominent in the parable, and should not be made prominent in the interpretation of the parable.
It is true, a hypocrite is a loathsome creature; but his badness will not make a profane man good.
The fracture of the rudder-head was caused by the badness of the workmanship in the interior of the forging.
There is no exaggeration in saying that the influx of water, and the badness of the ground, cause an extra expense of 150l.
