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Richard Whately, a renowned British economist, was born on February 1, 1787, and passed away on October 8, 1863. He is known for his contributions to political economy and moral philosophy.

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Famous Richard Whately Quotes

“Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.”

Ifs Has Beens Discovery Persecution Could Have Been

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.”

Has Beens Different Seems Given Term Views Definitions Various Different Things Conception Rhetoric Employed

Book:Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion, with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution

Source: Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion, with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution

“Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.”

Should Has Beens Made Done Turns Particular Anger Grieving Offenders

Book:Bacon's Essays

Source: Bacon's Essays

“When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.”

Men Has Beens Opposites Embrace Extremes Anarchy Despotism Eagerness

Author:Richard Whately

“Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.”

Men Has Beens Feelings Religious Defined Vanity Excess Superstitions Exhausting Devising Misdirection

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley