History of the Revolution in England in 1688, Band 1Baudry's European Library, 1834 - 403 Seiten |
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... philosophical judge . Such would , probably , be the difference between Mr. Hume and Mr. Burke , were they to treat on the French Revolution . The passions of the latter would only feel the excesses which had dishonoured it ; but the ...
... philosophical judge . Such would , probably , be the difference between Mr. Hume and Mr. Burke , were they to treat on the French Revolution . The passions of the latter would only feel the excesses which had dishonoured it ; but the ...
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... philosophical illustration of terms which had been generally but vaguely used be- fore ? Our next difficulty relates to the third line , Adumbratas rerum imagines multo expressiores reddidit , multoque dilucidiores . ' The construction ...
... philosophical illustration of terms which had been generally but vaguely used be- fore ? Our next difficulty relates to the third line , Adumbratas rerum imagines multo expressiores reddidit , multoque dilucidiores . ' The construction ...
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... philosophers of the eighteenth century were supposed to have in preparing the Revolution , increased the ten- dency to exalt an age in which genius prostrated itself with the same blind obedience before the altar and the throne . The ...
... philosophers of the eighteenth century were supposed to have in preparing the Revolution , increased the ten- dency to exalt an age in which genius prostrated itself with the same blind obedience before the altar and the throne . The ...
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... to knowledge , lawgivers and statesmen , but , above all , moralists and political philosophers , may reap the most important instruction . They may plainly discover , in all the 3 * AND SPEECHES OF SIR J. MACKINTOSH . 35 35.
... to knowledge , lawgivers and statesmen , but , above all , moralists and political philosophers , may reap the most important instruction . They may plainly discover , in all the 3 * AND SPEECHES OF SIR J. MACKINTOSH . 35 35.
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... philosophers , but impostors . Whoever thoroughly un- derstands such a science , must be able to teach it plainly to all men of common sense . The proposed course will therefore open with a very short , and , I hope , a very simple and ...
... philosophers , but impostors . Whoever thoroughly un- derstands such a science , must be able to teach it plainly to all men of common sense . The proposed course will therefore open with a very short , and , I hope , a very simple and ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 99 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us, a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Seite 299 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Seite 301 - ... making no doubt of the concurrence of our two Houses of Parliament when we shall think it convenient for them to meet.
Seite 46 - Some of them, indeed, the basest of the race, the sophists, the rhetors, the poet-laureates of murder, who were cruel only from cowardice and calculating selfishness, are perfectly willing to transfer their venal pens to any government that does not disdain their infamous support. These men, republicans from servility, who published rhetorical panegyrics on massacre, and who reduced plunder to a system of ethics, are as ready to preach slavery as anarchy. But the more daring, I had almost said the...
Seite 140 - The purpose of the physical sciences throughout all their provinces, is to answer the question What is '? They consist only of facts arranged according to their likeness, and expressed by general names given to every class of similar facts. The purpose of the moral sciences is to answer the question What ought to be...
Seite 50 - She became prudent from affection; and though of the most generous nature, she was taught economy and frugality by her love for me. During the most critical period of my life, she preserved order in my affairs, from the care of which she relieved me. She gently reclaimed me from dissipation; she propped my weak and irresolute nature; she urged my indolence to all the exertions that have been useful or creditable to me; and she was perpetually at hand to admonish my heedlessness and improvidence....
Seite 75 - ... consummate judge could only have been struck with the exquisite justness of his ideas, and the transparent simplicity of his manners. But no sooner had he spoken for some time, than he was changed into another being. He forgot himself and every thing around him. He thonght only of his subject.
Seite 30 - The perfect composition, the nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious hope that I might one day tread in his footsteps: the calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair.
Seite 294 - October, for the purpose of this royal visitation ; and the object of it was opened by Cartwright, in a speech full of anger and menace. Hough maintained his own rights and those of his college with equal decorum and firmness. On being asked whether he submitted to the visitation, he answered, " We submit to it as far as it is consistent with the laws of the land and the statutes of the college, but no farther. There neither is nor can be a president as long as I live and obey the statutes.
Seite 23 - He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood.