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<head>1819 March or April</head> | |||
<head>Deontology First</head> | |||
<p>If then is it to be that there exists a general connection between<lb/>beneficence and prudence viz. extra-regarding prudence of such sort<lb/> as that temperance is generally speaking conducive more or less<lb/> to self-regarding interest, hence follows the practical moments<lb/> <add>as</add> to employ all such occasions as present themselves of themselves<lb/> for the expertise of beneficence, in the next place to keep<lb/> on the look out for others.</p> | |||
<p>With more or less frequency most men have more or less considerable <lb/> quantity of time as the phrase is upon their hands: <lb/> time which through want of opportunity or <sic>thro'</sic> fatigue they<lb/>can not apply to business, and which for want of relish or<lb/> means they can not employ in pleasure.</p> | |||
<p>For filling up vacancies of this kind according <add>to</add> the disposition<lb/> natural or acquired the exercise of beneficence may<lb/> may more or less advantage serve.</p> | |||
<p>But without his being at the pains of looking out for them<lb/> there is no man however low his condition in the seat of <lb/> power to whom opportunity for the exercise of this virtue <lb/> may not occasionally present themselves.</p> | |||
<p>For exercise of the negative branch of this virtue opportunities <lb/> are continually presenting themselves to every human<lb/>being.</p> | |||
<p>Commensurate with or included in this negative branch <lb/> of beneficence is that negative virtue that consents<lb/> in the availing to give abeyance, in all the several <lb/> imaginable shapes which see</p> | |||
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1819 March or April Deontology First
If then is it to be that there exists a general connection between
beneficence and prudence viz. extra-regarding prudence of such sort
as that temperance is generally speaking conducive more or less
to self-regarding interest, hence follows the practical moments
as to employ all such occasions as present themselves of themselves
for the expertise of beneficence, in the next place to keep
on the look out for others.
With more or less frequency most men have more or less considerable
quantity of time as the phrase is upon their hands:
time which through want of opportunity or thro' fatigue they
can not apply to business, and which for want of relish or
means they can not employ in pleasure.
For filling up vacancies of this kind according to the disposition
natural or acquired the exercise of beneficence may
may more or less advantage serve.
But without his being at the pains of looking out for them
there is no man however low his condition in the seat of
power to whom opportunity for the exercise of this virtue
may not occasionally present themselves.
For exercise of the negative branch of this virtue opportunities
are continually presenting themselves to every human
being.
Commensurate with or included in this negative branch
of beneficence is that negative virtue that consents
in the availing to give abeyance, in all the several
imaginable shapes which see
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[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]] |
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