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... hands of a man of the requisite capacity and sensibility , is perhaps the very highest form of prose work . One may ... hand , taking much lower ground , aims not at a reproduction of the central figure of his meditations , but at a ...
... hands of a man of the requisite capacity and sensibility , is perhaps the very highest form of prose work . One may ... hand , taking much lower ground , aims not at a reproduction of the central figure of his meditations , but at a ...
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... hands of Whig chief- tains ; and that the government of the country , to whomsoever it might fall , should no longer be the appa- nage of a band of incompetent nobles , whose only claim to it was that their grandfathers had dethroned a ...
... hands of Whig chief- tains ; and that the government of the country , to whomsoever it might fall , should no longer be the appa- nage of a band of incompetent nobles , whose only claim to it was that their grandfathers had dethroned a ...
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... hand , who , because Burke was wise and great in his generation , declare that in his writings we have the best possible ... hands . And , what many will think not the least of his merits , he was the first in that long line of financial ...
... hand , who , because Burke was wise and great in his generation , declare that in his writings we have the best possible ... hands . And , what many will think not the least of his merits , he was the first in that long line of financial ...
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... hand to destroy any established insti- tution of Government upon a theory , however plausible it may be . Rightly conceiving that a stable equili- brium in society , or peace , as he always called it , is the aim and standard of all ...
... hand to destroy any established insti- tution of Government upon a theory , however plausible it may be . Rightly conceiving that a stable equili- brium in society , or peace , as he always called it , is the aim and standard of all ...
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... hands give food to a starving beggar , or medicine to a peasant sick of the ague ; where he would talk of the weather , the turnips , and the hay , with the team - men and the farm - bailiff ; and where , in the evening stillness , he ...
... hands give food to a starving beggar , or medicine to a peasant sick of the ague ; where he would talk of the weather , the turnips , and the hay , with the team - men and the farm - bailiff ; and where , in the evening stillness , he ...
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Page 150 - I do not examine, whether the giving away a man's money be a power excepted and reserved out of the general trust of government ; and how far all mankind, in all forms of polity, are entitled to an exercise of that right by the charter of nature. Or whether, on the contrary, a right of taxation is necessarily involved, in the general principle of legislation, and inseparable from the ordinary supreme power. These are deep questions. " where great names militate against each other; where reason is...
Page 59 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Page 280 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason ; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
Page 311 - If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear, every hope will forward it; and then they who persist in opposing this mighty current in human affairs, will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men. They will not be resolute and firm, but perverse and obstinate.
Page 133 - All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern [colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Page 267 - 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.
Page 163 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 62 - is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings, of the people. At every step of my progress in life, (for in every step was I traversed and opposed,) and at every turnpike I met, I was...
Page 143 - ... in order to prove that the Americans have no right to their liberties, we are every day endeavoring to subvert the maxims which preserve the whole spirit of our own.
Page 133 - Provinces, where the Church of England, notwithstanding its legal rights, is in reality no more than a sort of private sect, not composing most probably the tenth of the people. The Colonists left England when this spirit was high, and in the emigrants was the highest of all; and even that stream of foreigners which has been constantly flowing into these Colonies has, for the greatest part, been composed of dissenters from the establishments of their several countries, who have brought with them...