Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from the Works ofC. Whittingham, 1804 |
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... look early to public opinion ; to stand upon such ele- vated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the wide - spread and infinitely diversified combi- nations of men and affairs in a large society ; to have leisure to read ...
... look early to public opinion ; to stand upon such ele- vated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the wide - spread and infinitely diversified combi- nations of men and affairs in a large society ; to have leisure to read ...
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... look on religious opinions as the only cause of en- thusiastic zeal , and sectarian propagation . But there is no doctrine whatever , on which men can warm , that is not capable of the very same effect . The so- cial nature of man ...
... look on religious opinions as the only cause of en- thusiastic zeal , and sectarian propagation . But there is no doctrine whatever , on which men can warm , that is not capable of the very same effect . The so- cial nature of man ...
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... look upon the public revenue only as a spoil ; and will naturally wish to have as few as pos- sible concerned in the division of the booty . If a state should be so unhappy as to think it cannot subsist without such a barbarous ...
... look upon the public revenue only as a spoil ; and will naturally wish to have as few as pos- sible concerned in the division of the booty . If a state should be so unhappy as to think it cannot subsist without such a barbarous ...
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... look to the paltry pelf of the moment , nor to the tem- porary and transient praise of the vulgar , but to a so- lid , permanent existence , in the permanent part of their nature , and to a permanent fame and glory , in the example they ...
... look to the paltry pelf of the moment , nor to the tem- porary and transient praise of the vulgar , but to a so- lid , permanent existence , in the permanent part of their nature , and to a permanent fame and glory , in the example they ...
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... look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution ; that he should never dream of beginning its reforma- tion by its subversion ; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father , with pious awe ...
... look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution ; that he should never dream of beginning its reforma- tion by its subversion ; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father , with pious awe ...
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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.