at Plouay, France (Oct. 10-15)MenElite Road Race (268.9 km) Romans Vainsteins, LAT6:19:29Under-23 Road Race (169.8 km) Evgeni Petrov, RUS3:56:51Junior Road Race (127.4 km) Jeremy Yates, NZE2…
Jeremy Bentham, who lived at No. 1, Queen Square, London. He was the father of the political economists called Utilitarians, whose maxim is, “The greatest happiness of the greatest number…
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…
