Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Том 1Whittingham and Arliss, 1815 |
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... affairs forty years ago ( if the in- termediate space of time were expunged from his memory ) would hardly credit his senses , when he should hear from the highest authority , that an army of two hundred thousand men was kept up in this ...
... affairs forty years ago ( if the in- termediate space of time were expunged from his memory ) would hardly credit his senses , when he should hear from the highest authority , that an army of two hundred thousand men was kept up in this ...
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... affairs , and come to think that all reformation depends , not on a change of actors , but upon an alteration in the ma- chinery . Then will be felt the full effect of encourag- ing doctrines which tend to make the citizens despise ...
... affairs , and come to think that all reformation depends , not on a change of actors , but upon an alteration in the ma- chinery . Then will be felt the full effect of encourag- ing doctrines which tend to make the citizens despise ...
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... the government of his country , in a foreign court , has made a highway into England for the intrigues of foreign courts in our affairs . This is . a sore evil ; an evil from which , 93 EMBASSIES FROM INDIVIDUALS TO FOREIGN POWERS.
... the government of his country , in a foreign court , has made a highway into England for the intrigues of foreign courts in our affairs . This is . a sore evil ; an evil from which , 93 EMBASSIES FROM INDIVIDUALS TO FOREIGN POWERS.
Стр. 94
... affairs was foreign to her . We may consider it as a sure axiom that , as on the one hand no confederacy of the least effect or duration can exist against France , of which England is not only a part , but the head , so neither can ...
... affairs was foreign to her . We may consider it as a sure axiom that , as on the one hand no confederacy of the least effect or duration can exist against France , of which England is not only a part , but the head , so neither can ...
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... affairs of peace and war , or for ordering the revenue , should all be exercised upon public principles and national grounds , and not on the likings or pre- judices , the intrigues or policies , of a court . This , I said , is equal in ...
... affairs of peace and war , or for ordering the revenue , should all be exercised upon public principles and national grounds , and not on the likings or pre- judices , the intrigues or policies , of a court . This , I said , is equal in ...
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Стр. 173 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Стр. 174 - All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.
Стр. 140 - But, his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living.
Стр. 136 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. 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.
Стр. 120 - 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.
Стр. 53 - 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.
Стр. 135 - 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.
Стр. 136 - 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...
Стр. 178 - Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them.
Стр. 100 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.