
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
Part 1, Section 1
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), Book 3: Of morals
Context: Morality is a subject that interests us above all others: We fancy the peace of society to be at stake in every decision concerning it; and 'tis evident, that this concern must make our speculations appear more real and solid, than where the subject is, in a great measure, indifferent to us. What affects us, we conclude can never be a chimera; and as our passion is engag'd on the one side or the other, we naturally think that the question lies within human comprehension; which, in other cases of this nature, we are apt to entertain some doubt of. Without this advantage I never should have ventur'd upon a third volume of such abstruse philosophy, in an age, wherein the greatest part of men seem agreed to convert reading into an amusement, and to reject every thing that requires any considerable degree of attention to be comprehended.
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
Letter published 15 October 1787 in the New York Daily Advertiser under the pseudonym “Caesar”; Paul Leicester Ford suggested that “Caesar” was Alexander Hamilton, but this has not been generally accepted. See Jacob E. Cooke, "Alexander Hamilton's Authorship of the 'Caesar' Letters," The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Jan., 1960), pp. 78-85
Attributed
Quoted by Frederic Prokosch in Voices: A Memoir (1983)
“Make it a rule never to accuse without due consideration any body or association of men.”
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
Essays on the Higher Education (1899), page 7
Source: The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (1983), p. 77
Tullett v. Armstrong (1838), 1 Beav. 31.
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Source: The Characteristics of the Present Age (1806), p. 20