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Paley

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Pa·ley  (pl), William S. 1901-1990.
American broadcasting executive who founded the Columbia Broadcasting System (1929).
Paley [ˈpeɪlɪ]
n
(Biographies / Paley, William (1743-1805) M, English, RELIGION: theologian, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher) William. 1743-1805, English theologian and utilitarian philosopher. His chief works are The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785), Horae Paulinae (1790), A View of the Evidences of Christianity (1794), and Natural Theology (1802)
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But Paley appears never to have contemplated those cases to which the rule of expediency does not apply, in which a people, as well as an individual, must do justice, cost what it may.
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Paley was heard to explain, as if to justify her seizure of Susan, who got up and proceeded to wheel the chair to the door.
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But Paley appears never to have contemplated those cases to which the rule of expediency does not apply, in which a people, as well and an individual, must do justice, cost what it may.
Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
 
 
 
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