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... of others . But when men , whom we know to be wicked , impofe upon us , we are fomething worfe than dupes . When we know them , their fair pretences become new motives for diftruft , There is fair OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY . 9.
... of others . But when men , whom we know to be wicked , impofe upon us , we are fomething worfe than dupes . When we know them , their fair pretences become new motives for diftruft , There is fair OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY . 9.
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... to the people of France , that they have not formed their ar- rangements upon vulgar practice ; but on a theory which can- not fail , or fomething to that effect . As As to the people at large , when once thefe OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY , ...
... to the people of France , that they have not formed their ar- rangements upon vulgar practice ; but on a theory which can- not fail , or fomething to that effect . As As to the people at large , when once thefe OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY , ...
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... fomething flattering to the difpofitions of mankind . The life of adventurers , gamefters , gipfies , beggars , and robbers , is not unpleasant . It requires restraint to keep men from falling into that habit . The fhifting tides of ...
... fomething flattering to the difpofitions of mankind . The life of adventurers , gamefters , gipfies , beggars , and robbers , is not unpleasant . It requires restraint to keep men from falling into that habit . The fhifting tides of ...
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... the regulation of life . A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue ; but it re- commends virtue with fomething like the blan- dishments difhments of pleasure ; and it infinitely abates the evils 36 LETTER TO A MEMBER.
... the regulation of life . A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue ; but it re- commends virtue with fomething like the blan- dishments difhments of pleasure ; and it infinitely abates the evils 36 LETTER TO A MEMBER.
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... fomething to lofe . What I have faid to juftify myself in not appre- hending any ill confequence from a free difcuffion of the abfurd confequences which flow from the relation of the lawful king to the ufurped confti- tution , will ...
... fomething to lofe . What I have faid to juftify myself in not appre- hending any ill confequence from a free difcuffion of the abfurd confequences which flow from the relation of the lawful king to the ufurped confti- tution , will ...
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Page 219 - But when you disturb this harmony ; when you break up this beautiful order, this array of truth and nature, as well as of habit and prejudice ; when you separate the common sort of men from their proper chieftains so as to form them into an adverse army, I no longer know that venerable object called the people in such a disbanded race of deserters and vagabonds.
Page 261 - Think of a genius not born in every country, or every time ; a man gifted by nature with a penetrating aquiline eye ; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive erudition ; with an herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour ; a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit.
Page 157 - ... having first reduced corruption to a system. Such was their cant. But he was far from governing by corruption. He governed by party attachments. The charge of systematic corruption is less applicable to him, perhaps, than to any minister who ever served the crown for so great a length of time. He gained over very few from the opposition.
Page 216 - ... habitual social discipline in which the wiser, the more expert, and the more opulent conduct, and by conducting enlighten and protect, the weaker, the less knowing, and the less provided with the goods of fortune.
Page 262 - ... from his loins) a man capable of placing in review, after having brought together, from the...
Page 211 - In a state of rude nature there is no such thing as a people. A number of men in themselves have no collective capacity. The idea of a people is the idea of a corporation. It is wholly artificial ; and made, like all other legal fictions, by common agreement. What the particular nature of that agreement was, is collected from the form into which the particular society has been cast.
Page 219 - ... chieftains so as to form them into an adverse army, I no longer know that venerable object called the people in such a disbanded race of deserters and vagabonds. For a while they may be terrible indeed; but in such a manner as wild beasts are terrible. The mind owes to them no sort of submission. They are, as they have always been reputed, rebels. They may lawfully be fought with, and brought under, whenever an advantage offers.
Page 187 - A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. The constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting a government.
Page 280 - Whilst this restraint of foreign and domestic education was part of a horrible and impious system of servitude, the members were well fitted to the body. To render men patient, under a deprivation of all the rights of human nature, every thing which could give them a knowledge or feeling of those rights was rationally forbidden. To render humanity fit to be insulted, it was fit that it should be degraded.
Page 206 - We have obligations to mankind at large, which are not in consequence of any special voluntary pact. They arise from the relation of man to man, and the relation of man to God, which relations are not matters of choice.