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... perhaps , second to none in any age : he had still more wisdom than eloquence . He diligently collected it from the wise of all times : but , what he had so obtained , he enriched from the vast trea- sury of his own observation ; and ...
... perhaps , second to none in any age : he had still more wisdom than eloquence . He diligently collected it from the wise of all times : but , what he had so obtained , he enriched from the vast trea- sury of his own observation ; and ...
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... perhaps , too partial to those he esteemed ; over - rating every little merit , overlooking all their defects ; indefatigable in serving them ; straining in their favour whatever influence he pos- sessed ; and , for their sakes more ...
... perhaps , too partial to those he esteemed ; over - rating every little merit , overlooking all their defects ; indefatigable in serving them ; straining in their favour whatever influence he pos- sessed ; and , for their sakes more ...
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... perhaps but a part , perhaps none at all , are guilty , is indeed a compendious method , and saves a world of trouble about proof ; but such a method instead of being law , is an act of unnatural rebellion against the legal dominion of ...
... perhaps but a part , perhaps none at all , are guilty , is indeed a compendious method , and saves a world of trouble about proof ; but such a method instead of being law , is an act of unnatural rebellion against the legal dominion of ...
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... perhaps of its conservation . All we can do , and that human wisdom can do , is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees . This has all the be- nefits which may be in change , without any of the inconveniences of ...
... perhaps of its conservation . All we can do , and that human wisdom can do , is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees . This has all the be- nefits which may be in change , without any of the inconveniences of ...
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... perhaps , for that very reason it is per- formed with the greater satisfaction , because the discharge of it has more the appearance of freedom ; recommending us besides very specially to the divine favour , as the exercise of a virtue ...
... perhaps , for that very reason it is per- formed with the greater satisfaction , because the discharge of it has more the appearance of freedom ; recommending us besides very specially to the divine favour , as the exercise of a virtue ...
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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.