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Sir Leslie Stephen   /sər lˈɛsli stˈivən/   Listen
Sir Leslie Stephen

noun
1.
English writer (1832-1904).  Synonym: Stephen.






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"Sir Leslie Stephen" Quotes from Famous Books



... virtue, professed in public in all ages and all countries, made a show of by all men, enforced by the primary and fundamental laws of all civil constitutions: namely, justice, veracity, and regard to common good. [Footnote: Dissertation on the Nature of Virtue.] Sir Leslie Stephen, writing in the latter half of the nineteenth, tells us that "in one sense moralists are almost unanimous; in another they are hopelessly discordant. They are unanimous in pronouncing certain classes of conduct to be right and the opposite ...
— A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton



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