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... never employed in the essential service of society , is to keep the vulgar at a distance , lest their own pure nature should be contami- nated by the foul contagion . Their off- spring must be taught , in the first instance , to know ...
... never employed in the essential service of society , is to keep the vulgar at a distance , lest their own pure nature should be contami- nated by the foul contagion . Their off- spring must be taught , in the first instance , to know ...
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... but at Oxford , they never walk the streets , on the commonest occasions , without dis . playing their proud pre - eminence by gowns of silk and tufts of gold . As noblemen , or gentlemen commoners , they not only OF DESPOTISM . 38.
... but at Oxford , they never walk the streets , on the commonest occasions , without dis . playing their proud pre - eminence by gowns of silk and tufts of gold . As noblemen , or gentlemen commoners , they not only OF DESPOTISM . 38.
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... never obtain illustrious honors , where the people possess a due share of power , where liberty flourishes , unblighted by cor- ruption ; and therefore such men will ever be opposed to the people , and determined enemies to liberty ...
... never obtain illustrious honors , where the people possess a due share of power , where liberty flourishes , unblighted by cor- ruption ; and therefore such men will ever be opposed to the people , and determined enemies to liberty ...
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... never produce an injurious con- flagration . What employment , in the busy scene in which man engages from the cradle to the tomb , is more worthy of him than political discussion ? It affords a field for intellectu- al energy 46 THE ...
... never produce an injurious con- flagration . What employment , in the busy scene in which man engages from the cradle to the tomb , is more worthy of him than political discussion ? It affords a field for intellectu- al energy 46 THE ...
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... never be approved by the mass of the people , when their rea- son is suffered to receive its proper culti- vation . Their conduct seems to say , Let there be light , and the deformity of despo- tism will create abhorrence . Be the ...
... never be approved by the mass of the people , when their rea- son is suffered to receive its proper culti- vation . Their conduct seems to say , Let there be light , and the deformity of despo- tism will create abhorrence . Be the ...
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Page 340 - The Spirit of the Lord , is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 341 - And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Page 18 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 345 - And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord , And the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Page 341 - And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth.
Page 230 - It seems to me, that in order to maintain the moral system of the world at a certain point, far below that of ideal perfection, for we are made capable of conceiving what we are incapable of attaining; but, however, sufficient upon the whole to constitute a state easy and happy, or at the worst tolerable: I say, it seems to me...
Page 341 - ... the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor ; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 244 - They are masters of the commonwealth ; because in substance they are themselves the commonwealth. The French Revolution, say they, was the act of the majority of the people; and if the majority of any other people, the people of England, for instance, wish to make the same change, they have the same right. Just the same undoubtedly. That is, none at all.
Page 232 - If they retire from the world, their splendour accompanies them, and enlightens even the obscurity of their retreat. If they take a part in public life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear like ministers of divine vengeance, and their course through the world is marked by desolation and oppression, by poverty and servitude: or they are the guardian angels of the country they inhabit, busy to avert even the most distant evil, and to maintain or to procure peace, plenty, and the greatest...
Page 229 - ... rich traders, who from their success are presumed to have sharp and vigorous understandings, and to possess the virtues of diligence, order, constancy, and regularity, and to have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice : these are the circumstances of men that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation.