Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from the Works ofC. Whittingham, 1804 |
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... direct contrary effect from what we wish . We know that there is a legal presumption against men quando se nimis purgitant ; and if a charge of ambition is not refuted by an affected humility , cer- tainly the character of fraud and ...
... direct contrary effect from what we wish . We know that there is a legal presumption against men quando se nimis purgitant ; and if a charge of ambition is not refuted by an affected humility , cer- tainly the character of fraud and ...
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... direct and obligatory duty upon all Christians , next in or- der after the payment of debts , full as strong , and by nature made infinitely more delightful to us . Puffen- dorff , and other casuists , do not , I think , denominate it ...
... direct and obligatory duty upon all Christians , next in or- der after the payment of debts , full as strong , and by nature made infinitely more delightful to us . Puffen- dorff , and other casuists , do not , I think , denominate it ...
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... direct them to a certain end . Nothing stable in the modes of holding property , or exercising function , could form a solid ground on which any parent could spe- culate in the education of his offspring , or in a choice for their ...
... direct them to a certain end . Nothing stable in the modes of holding property , or exercising function , could form a solid ground on which any parent could spe- culate in the education of his offspring , or in a choice for their ...
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... direct , would be ashamed , as of a silly deceitful trick , to profess any religion in name , which by their proceedings they appear to contemn . If by their conduct ( the only language that rarely lies ) they seemed to regard the great ...
... direct , would be ashamed , as of a silly deceitful trick , to profess any religion in name , which by their proceedings they appear to contemn . If by their conduct ( the only language that rarely lies ) they seemed to regard the great ...
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... direct contrary course . They have attempt- ed to confound all sorts of citizens , as well as they could , into one homogeneous mass ; and then they divided this amalgama into a number of incoherent republics . They reduce men to loose ...
... direct contrary course . They have attempt- ed to confound all sorts of citizens , as well as they could , into one homogeneous mass ; and then they divided this amalgama into a number of incoherent republics . They reduce men to loose ...
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Страница 146 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Страница 79 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Страница 29 - Each contract of each particular State is but a clause in the great " primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible World, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable, oath which holds all physical and all moral natures, ^each in their appointed place.
Страница 183 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Страница 151 - But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments...
Страница 146 - Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Страница 132 - A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Страница 128 - It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our constitution ; or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not altogether tired you, give you very striking and convincing instances of it.
Страница 55 - My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force ; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.
Страница 145 - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.