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Page 33
... least as they were declared , I fee no- thing to which I could take exception . I think it very probable , that for some purpose , new mem- bers may have entered among them ; and that fome truly christian politicians , who love to dif ...
... least as they were declared , I fee no- thing to which I could take exception . I think it very probable , that for some purpose , new mem- bers may have entered among them ; and that fome truly christian politicians , who love to dif ...
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... least as any which have passed at or fince the period of the revolution ? If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people , had no title to make laws , what will become of the ftatute de tallagio non concedendo ? of ...
... least as any which have passed at or fince the period of the revolution ? If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people , had no title to make laws , what will become of the ftatute de tallagio non concedendo ? of ...
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... least ) any thing like fervants ; the effence of whofe fituation . is to obey the commands of fome other , and to be removeable at pleasure . But the king of Great Britain obeys no other perfon ; all other perfons are individually , and ...
... least ) any thing like fervants ; the effence of whofe fituation . is to obey the commands of fome other , and to be removeable at pleasure . But the king of Great Britain obeys no other perfon ; all other perfons are individually , and ...
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... least , as little countenance from any thing done at the revolu- tion , either in precedent or principle , as the two firft of their claims . The revolution was made to preferve our ancient indifputable laws and liberties , and that ...
... least , as little countenance from any thing done at the revolu- tion , either in precedent or principle , as the two firft of their claims . The revolution was made to preferve our ancient indifputable laws and liberties , and that ...
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... least , with all the general theories concerning the " rights of men , " as any of the difcourfers in our pulpits , or on your tri- bune ; full as well as Dr. Price , or as the Abbé Syeyes . But , for reafons worthy of that practical ...
... least , with all the general theories concerning the " rights of men , " as any of the difcourfers in our pulpits , or on your tri- bune ; full as well as Dr. Price , or as the Abbé Syeyes . But , for reafons worthy of that practical ...
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Page 79 - ... 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, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Page 121 - But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock; and as to the share of power, authority, and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society; for I have in my contemplation the civil social man, and no other.
Page 42 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Page 184 - It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection.
Page 79 - The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down to us, and from us in the same course and order. 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...
Page 183 - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Page 79 - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.
Page 172 - Who, born within the last forty years, has read one word of Collins, and Toland, and Tindal, and Chubb, and Morgan, and that whole race who called themselves Freethinkers? Who now reads Bolingbroke? Who ever read him through?
Page 78 - 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.
Page 36 - Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered?