Letters on the Study and Use of History: On Exile ; the Spirit of Patriotism ; Idea of a Patriot King ; State of Parties in 1714Alexander Murray, 1870 - 280 pages |
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... politics . We made them unfit to govern us , and after that were forced to recall them that they might rescue us out of anarchy . It was ne- cessary therefore , your lordship sees , at the revolution , and it is more so now , to go back ...
... politics . We made them unfit to govern us , and after that were forced to recall them that they might rescue us out of anarchy . It was ne- cessary therefore , your lordship sees , at the revolution , and it is more so now , to go back ...
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... politicians ; and a long roll would be produced of others who have arrived at a great pitch of pri- vate and public virtue , without any assistance of this kind . Something has been said already to anticipate this objection ; but since ...
... politicians ; and a long roll would be produced of others who have arrived at a great pitch of pri- vate and public virtue , without any assistance of this kind . Something has been said already to anticipate this objection ; but since ...
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... politics on the surest foundations , on the trial of these principles and rules in all ages , and on the confirmation of them by universal experience . I said he will distinguish them ; for once more I must say , that as to par- ticular ...
... politics on the surest foundations , on the trial of these principles and rules in all ages , and on the confirmation of them by universal experience . I said he will distinguish them ; for once more I must say , that as to par- ticular ...
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... political speculations , ought to be the making us better men and better citizens . Those studies , which have no intention towards improving our moral cha- 6 racters , have no pretence to be styled philosophical . Quis est enim ...
... political speculations , ought to be the making us better men and better citizens . Those studies , which have no intention towards improving our moral cha- 6 racters , have no pretence to be styled philosophical . Quis est enim ...
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... politics . The truth is , nations like men have their infancy ; and the few passages of that time , which they retain , are not such as deserved most to be remembered , but such as , being most proportioned to that age , made the ...
... politics . The truth is , nations like men have their infancy ; and the few passages of that time , which they retain , are not such as deserved most to be remembered , but such as , being most proportioned to that age , made the ...
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