 ... whose inherent attribute is free-agency, and whose distinguishing faculty is reason, than to shelter himself from the dread of responsibility under the humiliating apology of mental slavery ? It is as if he should say — ' Excuse the irregularities...  An essay on diet and regimen - Page 8by James Makittrick Adair - 1812 - 146 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1803 - 300 pages
...as if he should say — ' Excuse the irregularities of my conduct, for I am a brute and not a man ; I follow instinct and renounce all claim to reason ; my actions govern me, not I my actions ; '—and yet the people, to whom I allude, generally set up this plea in excuse for... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 394 pages
...as if he should say — ' Excuse the irregularities of my conduct, for I am a brute and not a man ; I follow instinct and renounce all claim to reason ; my actions govern me, not I my actions ; — and yet the people to whom I allude, generally set up this plea in excuse for... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 400 pages
...is as if he should say—' Excuse the irregularities of my conduct, for I am a brute and not a man; I follow instinct and renounce all claim to reason; my actions govern me, not I my actions ;'—and yet the XXXVIII. 2 E people to whom I allude, generally set up this plea... | |
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