Miscellaneous essays. Political tracts. A journey to the Western islands of ScotlandLuke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... danger was only in opposing . The civility with which you have thought proper to treat me , when you had incontestable superiority , has inclined me to make your victory complete , without any further struggle , and not only publickly ...
... danger was only in opposing . The civility with which you have thought proper to treat me , when you had incontestable superiority , has inclined me to make your victory complete , without any further struggle , and not only publickly ...
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... there are not many states of life , in which all knowledge , less than the highest wisdom , will pro- duce discontent and danger . I believe it may be some • sometimes found , that a little learning is to 34 REVIEW OF A.
... there are not many states of life , in which all knowledge , less than the highest wisdom , will pro- duce discontent and danger . I believe it may be some • sometimes found , that a little learning is to 34 REVIEW OF A.
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... dangerous thing . But such is the condition of humanity , that we easily see , or quickly feel the wrong , but cannot always distinguish the right . Whatever knowledge is superfluous , in irremediable poverty , is hurtful , but the ...
... dangerous thing . But such is the condition of humanity , that we easily see , or quickly feel the wrong , but cannot always distinguish the right . Whatever knowledge is superfluous , in irremediable poverty , is hurtful , but the ...
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... danger , they must be sensible of fear . " This is to give a reason for all Evil , by showing that one Evil produces another . If there is danger there ought to be fear ; but if fear is an Evil , why should there be danger ? His ...
... danger , they must be sensible of fear . " This is to give a reason for all Evil , by showing that one Evil produces another . If there is danger there ought to be fear ; but if fear is an Evil , why should there be danger ? His ...
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... dangerous temptation of doing Evil that Good may come . Because it may easily happen , and in effect will happen very frequently , that our own private hap- piness may be promoted by an act injurious to others , when yet no man can be ...
... dangerous temptation of doing Evil that Good may come . Because it may easily happen , and in effect will happen very frequently , that our own private hap- piness may be promoted by an act injurious to others , when yet no man can be ...
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Стр. 204 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Стр. 71 - that having been in this session of parliament expelled this house, he was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament.
Стр. 177 - British parliament, as are, bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation, internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent.
Стр. 177 - ... as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances cannot properly be represented in the British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures...
Стр. 174 - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
Стр. 390 - ... has not made the experiment, or who is not accustomed to require rigorous accuracy from himself, will scarcely believe how much a few hours take from certainty of knowledge, and distinctness of imagery ; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed and conglobated into one gross and general idea.
Стр. 273 - We came thither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life. The clans retain little now of their original character, their ferocity of temper is softened, their military ardour is extinguished, their dignity of independence is depressed, their contempt of government subdued, and the reverence for their chiefs abated.
Стр. 176 - That, by such emigration, they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost, any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Стр. 251 - We were in this place at ease and by choice, and had no evils to suffer or to fear; yet the imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens...
Стр. 352 - ... always feel their own ignorance. They are not much accustomed to be interrogated by others : and seem never to have thought upon interrogating themselves ; so that if they do not know what they tell to be true, they likewise do not distinctly perceive it to be false. Mr. Boswell was very diligent in his inquiries ; and the result of his investigations was, that the answer to the second question was commonly such as nullified the answer to the first.