They had been determined by the justice of it.

Why were they then to be troubled again with arguments of this nature?
These, if admitted, would go to the subversion of all public as well as private morality.

Nations were as much bound as individuals to a system of morals, though a breach in the former could not be so easily punished.

In private life morality took pretty good care of itself.

It was a kind of retail article, in which the returns were speedy.