Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: essays, moral, political and literary, Band 1Bell & Bradfute, 1825 - 544 Seiten |
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... maxim of the kind we are here speaking of . When a monarch extends his domi- nions by conquest , he soon learns to consider his old and his new subjects as on the same footing ; because , in reality , all his subjects are to him the ...
... maxim of the kind we are here speaking of . When a monarch extends his domi- nions by conquest , he soon learns to consider his old and his new subjects as on the same footing ; because , in reality , all his subjects are to him the ...
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... maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments , as well as to the most free and most popular . The soldan of Egypt , or the emperor of Rome , might drive his harmless subjects , like brute beasts , against their ...
... maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments , as well as to the most free and most popular . The soldan of Egypt , or the emperor of Rome , might drive his harmless subjects , like brute beasts , against their ...
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... maxim , that every man must be supposed a knave ; though , at the same time , it appears somewhat strange , that a maxim should be true in politics which is false in fact . But to satisfy us on this head , we may consider , that men are ...
... maxim , that every man must be supposed a knave ; though , at the same time , it appears somewhat strange , that a maxim should be true in politics which is false in fact . But to satisfy us on this head , we may consider , that men are ...
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... maxim , that the balance of the one depends on the ba- lance of the other , must be received with several limitations . It is evident , that much less property in a single hand will be able to counterbalance a greater property in ...
... maxim , that the balance of the one depends on the ba- lance of the other , must be received with several limitations . It is evident , that much less property in a single hand will be able to counterbalance a greater property in ...
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... maxim , and is commonly proved , among other instances , by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm , the corruptions of true religion . These two species of false religion , though both perni- cious , are yet of a very ...
... maxim , and is commonly proved , among other instances , by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm , the corruptions of true religion . These two species of false religion , though both perni- cious , are yet of a very ...
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