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... least as they were declared , I fee nothing to which I could take exception . I think it very pro- bable , that for fome purpose , new members may have entered among them ; and that fome truly christian politicians , who love to ...
... least as they were declared , I fee nothing to which I could take exception . I think it very pro- bable , that for fome purpose , new members may have entered among them ; and that fome truly christian politicians , who love to ...
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... least as any which have paffed 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 concendendo ...
... least as any which have paffed 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 concendendo ...
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... they conduct . To be led any other- wife than blindly , the followers must be qualified , if not for actors , at least for judges ; they must alfo alfo be judges of natural weight and authority . No- 68 REFLECTIONS ON THE.
... they conduct . To be led any other- wife than blindly , the followers must be qualified , if not for actors , at least for judges ; they must alfo alfo be judges of natural weight and authority . No- 68 REFLECTIONS ON THE.
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... least as forcible as thofe which were fo delicately urged in the compliment on the new year , the king of France will probably endeavour to forget thefe events , and that compli- ment . But Hiftory , who keeps a durable record of all ...
... least as forcible as thofe which were fo delicately urged in the compliment on the new year , the king of France will probably endeavour to forget thefe events , and that compli- ment . But Hiftory , who keeps a durable record of all ...
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... least , they all threaten to difappear together , Where trade and manufac- tures are wanting to a people , and the spirit of nobi- lity and religion remains , fentiment fupplies , and not always ill fupplies their place ; but if ...
... least , they all threaten to difappear together , Where trade and manufac- tures are wanting to a people , and the spirit of nobi- lity and religion remains , fentiment fupplies , and not always ill fupplies their place ; but if ...
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Page 111 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Page 93 - The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity ; and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions, I am at no loss to decide that the artificers are grossly ignorant of their trade, or totally negligent of their duty.
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Page 95 - Sir, I never liked this continual talk of resistance and revolution, or the practice of making the extreme medicine of the constitution its daily bread.
Page 135 - By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that, by their poisonous weeds and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life.
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Page 58 - 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 97 - This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man, that they have totally forgot his nature. Without opening one new avenue to the understanding, they have succeeded in stopping up those that lead to the heart. They have perverted in themselves, and in those that attend to them, all the well-placed sympathies of the human breast.
Page 94 - ... infinitely captivating. In effect each would answer its single end much more perfectly than the more complex is able to attain all its complex purposes. But it is better that the whole should be imperfectly and anomalously answered than that, while some parts are provided for with great exactness, others might be totally neglected, or perhaps materially injured, by the over-care of a favourite member.
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