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... publick papers . It is of con- fequence to him not to be misunderstood . The matter which incidentally came into difcuffion is of the most serious importance . It is thought that the heads and fubftance of the speech will answer the ...
... publick papers . It is of con- fequence to him not to be misunderstood . The matter which incidentally came into difcuffion is of the most serious importance . It is thought that the heads and fubftance of the speech will answer the ...
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... publick virtues , was the moft dangerous , and jea- loufy in an house of commons , of all publick vices , the most tolerable ; efpecially where the number and the charge of standing armies , in time of peace , was the queftion . That in ...
... publick virtues , was the moft dangerous , and jea- loufy in an house of commons , of all publick vices , the most tolerable ; efpecially where the number and the charge of standing armies , in time of peace , was the queftion . That in ...
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... publick feal of fanction they have received from two clubs of gentlemen in London , called the Con- ftitutional Society , and the Revolution Society . I certainly have the honour to belong to more clubs than one , in which the ...
... publick feal of fanction they have received from two clubs of gentlemen in London , called the Con- ftitutional Society , and the Revolution Society . I certainly have the honour to belong to more clubs than one , in which the ...
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... had the custom of hearing a fermon in one of their churches ; and that afterwards they fpent the day cheerfully , as other clubs do , at the ta- vern . But I never heard that any publick mea- vern . 32 REFLECTIONS ON THE.
... had the custom of hearing a fermon in one of their churches ; and that afterwards they fpent the day cheerfully , as other clubs do , at the ta- vern . But I never heard that any publick mea- vern . 32 REFLECTIONS ON THE.
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... publick capacity , by a congratulatory addrefs , giving an authoritative fanction to the proceedings of the national affem- bly in France . In the ancient principles and conduct of the club , fo far at least as they were declared , I ...
... publick capacity , by a congratulatory addrefs , giving an authoritative fanction to the proceedings of the national affem- bly in France . In the ancient principles and conduct of the club , fo far at least as they were declared , I ...
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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?