Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 1Whittingham and Arliss, 1815 - English literature |
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... proper , a suitable , but a most con- temptible prey to the servile ambition of popular sy- cophants or courtly flatterers . When the people have emptied themselves of all the lust of selfish will , which without religion it is ut ...
... proper , a suitable , but a most con- temptible prey to the servile ambition of popular sy- cophants or courtly flatterers . When the people have emptied themselves of all the lust of selfish will , which without religion it is ut ...
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... proper mag- nitude to engage them ; they must see the means of compassing it to be next to certain ; the mischiefs not to counterbalance the profit ; they will examine how a proposed imposition or regulation agrees with the opinion of ...
... proper mag- nitude to engage them ; they must see the means of compassing it to be next to certain ; the mischiefs not to counterbalance the profit ; they will examine how a proposed imposition or regulation agrees with the opinion of ...
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... proper place , and with its proper proportion of power , must ( as each shall happen to be attacked ) vindicate the three several parts on the several principles pe- culiarly belonging to them . He cannot assert the democratic part on ...
... proper place , and with its proper proportion of power , must ( as each shall happen to be attacked ) vindicate the three several parts on the several principles pe- culiarly belonging to them . He cannot assert the democratic part on ...
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... proper for private management , than public administration . They are fitter for the care of a frugal land steward , than of an office in the state . Whatever they may possibly have been in other times , or in other countries , they are ...
... proper for private management , than public administration . They are fitter for the care of a frugal land steward , than of an office in the state . Whatever they may possibly have been in other times , or in other countries , they are ...
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... proper element than in the provision and distribution of the public wealth . It is therefore not without reason that the science of specu- lative and practical finance , which must take to its aid so many auxiliary branches of knowledge ...
... proper element than in the provision and distribution of the public wealth . It is therefore not without reason that the science of specu- lative and practical finance , which must take to its aid so many auxiliary branches of knowledge ...
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Page 173 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Page 174 - 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.
Page 140 - But, his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living.
Page 136 - 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.
Page 120 - It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our constitution ; or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not altogether tired you, give you very striking and convincing instances of it.
Page 53 - 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.
Page 135 - 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 136 - 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 178 - Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them.
Page 100 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.