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... less to be washed away by indications of meanness . Fraud and prevarication are servile vices . They sometimes grow out of the necessities , always out of the habits , of slavish and degenerate spirits : and on the theatre of the world ...
... less to be washed away by indications of meanness . Fraud and prevarication are servile vices . They sometimes grow out of the necessities , always out of the habits , of slavish and degenerate spirits : and on the theatre of the world ...
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... less fair and justifiable , ( even if no attempt were made to inflame the passions ) than to submit a matter on discussion to a tribunal incapable of judg ing of more than one side of the question . ARBITRARY POWER . ARBITRARY power is ...
... less fair and justifiable , ( even if no attempt were made to inflame the passions ) than to submit a matter on discussion to a tribunal incapable of judg ing of more than one side of the question . ARBITRARY POWER . ARBITRARY power is ...
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... less necessary for the exist ence of any state or church in the world . Whenever I shall be convinced , which will be late and reluc- tantly , that the safety of the church is utterly incon- sistent with all the civil rights whatsoever ...
... less necessary for the exist ence of any state or church in the world . Whenever I shall be convinced , which will be late and reluc- tantly , that the safety of the church is utterly incon- sistent with all the civil rights whatsoever ...
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... less under responsibility to one of the greatest controlling powers on earth , the sense of fame and estimation . The share of infamy that is likely to fall to the lot of each individual in public acts , is small indeed ; the ope ...
... less under responsibility to one of the greatest controlling powers on earth , the sense of fame and estimation . The share of infamy that is likely to fall to the lot of each individual in public acts , is small indeed ; the ope ...
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... less enquiring receive them from an authority , which those whom Providence dooms to live on trust need not be ashamed to rely on . These two sorts of men move in the same direction , though in a different place . They both move with ...
... less enquiring receive them from an authority , which those whom Providence dooms to live on trust need not be ashamed to rely on . These two sorts of men move in the same direction , though in a different place . They both move with ...
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Seite 183 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Seite 146 - 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; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Seite 184 - 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.
Seite 146 - 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.
Seite 145 - 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.
Seite 132 - A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Seite 26 - But one of the first and most leading principles on which the commonwealth and the laws are consecrated, is lest the temporary possessors and life-renters in it, unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors, or of what is due to their posterity, should act as if they were the entire masters...
Seite 24 - All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust ; and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
Seite 55 - My next objection is its uncertainty. 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.
Seite 47 - Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire, and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies, the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities.