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Page 34
... attempt such things . If any thing can be supposed out of the power of human legislature , it is religion ; I admit , however , that the established religion of this country has been three or four times altered by act of parliament ...
... attempt such things . If any thing can be supposed out of the power of human legislature , it is religion ; I admit , however , that the established religion of this country has been three or four times altered by act of parliament ...
Page 53
... attempt to extend or to confine it , we ought to fix in our minds , with some degree of dis- tinctness , an idea of what it is we mean , when we say the PEOPLE . In a state of rude nature there is no such 53 THE PEOPLE.
... attempt to extend or to confine it , we ought to fix in our minds , with some degree of dis- tinctness , an idea of what it is we mean , when we say the PEOPLE . In a state of rude nature there is no such 53 THE PEOPLE.
Page 60
... attempt by outrage and violence to deprive men of any advantage which they hold under the laws , and to destroy the natural order of life , proclaim war against them . **** As to the people at large , when once these 60.
... attempt by outrage and violence to deprive men of any advantage which they hold under the laws , and to destroy the natural order of life , proclaim war against them . **** As to the people at large , when once these 60.
Page 61
... attempt towards pleasing every body , dis- covers a temper always flashy , and often false and insincere . POETRY AND RHETORIC . In reality poetry and rhetoric do not succeed in exact description so well as painting does ; their ...
... attempt towards pleasing every body , dis- covers a temper always flashy , and often false and insincere . POETRY AND RHETORIC . In reality poetry and rhetoric do not succeed in exact description so well as painting does ; their ...
Page 65
... attempt to fly from it , and to refuse the very terms of our existence , becomes much more truly a curse , and heavier pains and penalties fall upon those who would elude the tasks which are put upon them by the great Master Workman of ...
... attempt to fly from it , and to refuse the very terms of our existence , becomes much more truly a curse , and heavier pains and penalties fall upon those who would elude the tasks which are put upon them by the great Master Workman of ...
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Page 91 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 105 - The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes ; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. Th6 rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. The rights of men in governments are their advantages ; and these are often in balances between differences of good ; in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes, between evil and evil.
Page 80 - The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science; because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate...
Page 41 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle...
Page 75 - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth ; so to be patriots, as not to forget we are gentlemen.
Page 101 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
Page 26 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
Page 103 - ... inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection. This can only be done by a power out of themselves ; and not, in the exercise of its function, subject to that will and to those passions which it is its office to bridle and sub102 due. In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.
Page 139 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of...