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To say nothing of minor opponents, such as " Philaretus " ( Gilbert Burnet, already alluded to ), Dr John Balguy ( 1686 – 1748 ), prebendary of Salisbury, the author of two tracts on " The Foundation of Moral Goodness ", and Dr John Taylor ( 1694 – 1761 ) of Norwich, a minister of considerable reputation in his time ( author of An Examination of the Scheme of Amorality advanced by Dr Hutcheson ), the essays appear to have suggested, by antagonism, at least two works that hold a permanent place in the literature of English ethics — Butler's Dissertation on the Nature of Virtue, and Richard Price's Treatise of Moral Good and Evil ( 1757 ).
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say and nothing
As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.
With facts mainly in his mind, he was often acute in the matter of style, and he said, `` The young who have as yet nothing to say will try larks with initial letters and broken lines.
And until this protection is at least as concrete as, say, the row of hotels that bars us from our own sands at Miami Beach, those who represent us all should agree to nothing.
With a few exceptions, the lawmakers seemed unaware of the technical problems of federal jurisdiction involved -- to say nothing of the delegation of lawmaking power to judges.
Are we prepared to say that in that case nothing bad occurred in the sense in which we said it did??
If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.
Still there was no Gonzales and the family would say nothing.
Two weeks, a month, we talk it over again, and maybe if nothing happens meanwhile to say the cops know this and that, then we make a little deal, isn't it ''??
that what he had said was no more than one of those things one does say, lightly, meaning nothing.
Spencer was quiet for a moment longer, then he said, `` There is nothing I want to say, Captain ''.
He had nothing much to say to her but that he said anything seemed to please her and he accompanied her on some of her unusually searching tours of Tokyo.
" The words " Is, or Bee, or Are, and the like " add no meaning to an argument nor do derived words such as " Entity, Essence, Essentially, Essentiality ", which " are the names of nothing " but are mere " Signes " connecting " one name or attribute to another: as when we say, A man, is, a living body, wee mean not that the Man is one thing, the Living Body another, and the Is, or Being another: but that the Man, and the Living Body, is the same thing ;...." " Metaphysiques ," Hobbes says, is " far from the possibility of being understood " and is " repugnant to naturall Reason.
Being to Hobbes ( and the other empiricists ) is the physical universe: The world, ( I mean ... the Universe, that is, the whole masse of all things that are ) is corporeall, that is to say, Body ; and hath the dimension of magnitude, namely, Length, Bredth and Depth: also every part of Body, is likewise Body ... and consequently every part of the Universe is Body, and that which is not Body, is no part of the Universe: and because the Universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing ; and consequently no where.
Famous in his own time for his perceived ugliness, Abraham Lincoln was described by a contemporary: " to say that he is ugly is nothing ; to add that his figure is grotesque, is to convey no adequate impression.
In one of these letters she tells him that " I choose what I believe, and say nothing.
Brubeck's disbanding of the Quartet at the end of 1967 allowed him more time to compose the longer, extended orchestral and choral works that were occupying his attention ( to say nothing of Brubeck's desire to spend more time with his family ).
One of her mottoes was " video et taceo " (" I see, and say nothing ").
We will not be troubled at any loss, but will say to ourselves on such an occasion: " I have lost nothing that belongs to me ; it was not something of mine that was torn from me, but something that was not in my power has left me.
The economist Walter Block observed critically that while The Road to Serfdom is " a war cry against central planning ," it does show some reservations with a free market system and laissez-faire capitalism, with Hayek even going so far as to say that " probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez-faire.
He admitted that what they said was " more truthful than the lying propaganda found in most of the press " but added that he could not " associate himself with an essentially Conservative body " that claimed to " defend democracy in Europe " but had " nothing to say about British imperialism.
He stated that his name was Grímnir, but he would say nothing further of himself.
Linguistic prescriptions also form part of the explanation for variation in speech, particularly variation in the speech of an individual speaker ( an explanation, for example, for why some people say, " I didn't do nothing "; some say, " I didn't do anything "; and some say one or the other depending on social context ).
It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine "-" I was within a hair's breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say.
say and minor
Scholars defending Luke's authorship say there is no reason for early Christians to attribute these works to such a minor figure if he did not in fact write them, nor is there any tradition attributing this work to any other author.
The initial police report indicated that the damage to the chair was minor, but did not say whether there was any damage to the stone.
In his private notes, Eliade wrote that he took no further interest in the office, because his visits abroad had convinced him that he had " something great to say ", and that he could not function within the confines of " a minor culture ".
Théophile Thoré wrote that Corot " has only a single octave, extremely limited and in a minor key ; a musician would say.
Some say the original Mach GoGoGo episodes underwent minor editing to reach the form which aired in the US ; others say it underwent major editing.
When a version appeared in her collection America the Beautiful, and Other Poems ( 1912 ), a reviewer in the New York Times wrote: " we intend no derogation to Miss Katharine Lee Bates when we say that she is a good minor poet.
ceasing hostilities and making a few minor concessions from a menu-as if, say, Lord Halifax had become Prime Minister instead of Winston Churchill.
This is not to say that Wyatt's role in the construction of Fonthill was by any means minor to Beckford's, the former having been not only the author of the design of the building ( based on Beckford's ideas ), but he was ultimately a master at combining the different volumes and scales in the building, and in doing so he achieved a faux effect of layered historical development in the building by combining different stylistic architectural elements.
In the case where a graph H can be obtained from a graph G by a sequence of lifting operations ( on G ) and then finding an isomorphic subgraph, we say that H is an immersion minor of G.
We say that H is an immersion minor of G if there exists an injective mapping from vertices in H to vertices in G where the images of adjacent elements of H are connected in G by edge-disjoint paths.
Furthermore, small additions ( say 20 mg per liter ) may be made to red wine after alcoholic ferment and before malolactic ferment to overcome minor oxidation and prevent the growth of acetic acid bacteria.
In ancient Bicol Bathala was worshipped as a minor deity, represented by a small idol image which they always carried for good luck, according to Lisboa ( 1628, 61 ) “ they say it was an anito that brought good luck to one it accompanied ”.
The stamps were redesigned again in 1888, to say " POSTAGE & REVENUE " instead of just " POSTAGE ", at which time the 25c to $ 2 values also received minor changes.
Many minor problems present in the original Windows 98 were found and fixed which make it, according to many, the most stable release of Windows 9x family — to the extent that commentators used to say that Windows 98's beta version was more stable than Windows 95's final ( gamma ) version.
Turnbull commented mostly on the size of the book, " I would say that only the most severe critic could point at a minor omission, let alone a serious one.
The authors say minor choices such as choosing between paper or plastic bags do not have that much overall impact.
You can't really say anything bad about E minor, A minor, D, and G – I mean, they're just good chords.
After summarizing the above analyses Nattiez asserts that the context of the Tristan chord is A minor, and that analyses which say the key is E or E are " wrong ".
These two operations commute, and if J is another clutter, we say that J is a minor of H if a clutter isomorphic to J may be obtained from H by a sequence of deletions and contractions.
I say major because the difference between major and minor is very important.
This is different from the predominant Australian electoral system, the instant runoff voting system, and in practice is closer to a first past the post ballot ( similar to the ballot used in the UK ), which some say is to the detriment of minor parties.
" Some specialists say that minor mineral losses can be minimized with regular physical activity and vitamin D and calcium supplements.
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