The greatest happiness of the greatest number. Jeremy Bentham's political axiom. (Liberty of the People.) (1821.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
(Jeremy). An artful swindler; a clever, seedy vagabond, borrowing money or obtaining credit by his wit and wits. From Kenny's farce called Raising the Wind. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…
A word first used by John Stuart Mill; but Jeremy Bentham employed the word “Utility” to signify the doctrine which makes “the happiness of man” the one and only measure of right and wrong…
“Faith is the golden chain to link the penitent sinner unto God” (Jeremy Taylor). The allusion is to a passage in Homer's Iliad (i. 19-30), where Zeus says, If a golden chain were let down…
meant originally a private person, one not engaged in any public office. Hence Jeremy Taylor says, “Humility is a duty in great ones, as well as in idiots” (private persons). The Greeks…
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The 2004–2005 Obie Awards, honoring distinguished achievement in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions, were presented on May 16, 2005, at New York's Webster Hall.Direction: Dan…
Career PBA Tour money leader Walter Ray Williams Jr. continued to shine in 1998 with another monster year.PBA Tour He was the PBA Player of the Year in 1996 and 1997. He had 24 titles to his…
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