Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Том 1Whittingham and Arliss, 1815 |
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... nations , as it were , from all the benefits of the constitution to which they were born , I never can believe to be po- litic or expedient , much less necessary for the ́exist- ence of any state or church in the world . Whenever I ...
... nations , as it were , from all the benefits of the constitution to which they were born , I never can believe to be po- litic or expedient , much less necessary for the ́exist- ence of any state or church in the world . Whenever I ...
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... an unnatural inverted domi- nation , tyrannically to exact , from those who officiate in the state , not an entire devotion to their interest , * Quicquid multis peccatur inultum . which is their right , but an abject submission to 25.
... an unnatural inverted domi- nation , tyrannically to exact , from those who officiate in the state , not an entire devotion to their interest , * Quicquid multis peccatur inultum . which is their right , but an abject submission to 25.
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... nation to office , they will not appoint to the exercise of authority , as to a pitiful job , but as to a holy func- tion ; not according to their sordid selfish interest , nor to their wanton caprice , nor to their arbitrary will ; but ...
... nation to office , they will not appoint to the exercise of authority , as to a pitiful job , but as to a holy func- tion ; not according to their sordid selfish interest , nor to their wanton caprice , nor to their arbitrary will ; but ...
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... nation , con- tinually varying the standard of its coin ? No part of life would retain its acquisitions . Barbarism with re- gard to science and literature , unskilfulness with re- gard to arts and manufactures , would infallibly suc ...
... nation , con- tinually varying the standard of its coin ? No part of life would retain its acquisitions . Barbarism with re- gard to science and literature , unskilfulness with re- gard to arts and manufactures , would infallibly suc ...
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... nations ; and when this people has acted unwisely and un- justifiably in its favour ( as in some instances they have done most certainly ) in their very errors you will at least discover their zeal . This principle runs through the ...
... nations ; and when this people has acted unwisely and un- justifiably in its favour ( as in some instances they have done most certainly ) in their very errors you will at least discover their zeal . This principle runs through the ...
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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.