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Edmund Burke. which , by the animofity prevalent between the abettors of their religious fyftem and the affertors ' of ... religion , the danger of their example is no longer from in , tolerance , tolerance , but from atheism ; a foul ...
Edmund Burke. which , by the animofity prevalent between the abettors of their religious fyftem and the affertors ' of ... religion , the danger of their example is no longer from in , tolerance , tolerance , but from atheism ; a foul ...
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... religious or civil , on the minds of the people . By this mad declaration they fubverted the ftate ; and brought on fuch calami- ties as no country , without a long war , has ever been known to fuffer , and which may in the end produce ...
... religious or civil , on the minds of the people . By this mad declaration they fubverted the ftate ; and brought on fuch calami- ties as no country , without a long war , has ever been known to fuffer , and which may in the end produce ...
Side 37
... religion ; with folidity and property ; with peace and or- der ; with civil and focial manners . All these ( in their way ) are good things too ; and , without them , liberty is not a benefit whilft it lafts , and is not likely to ...
... religion ; with folidity and property ; with peace and or- der ; with civil and focial manners . All these ( in their way ) are good things too ; and , without them , liberty is not a benefit whilft it lafts , and is not likely to ...
Side 41
... religious fenti- ments , and not ill expreffed , mixed up with a fort of porridge of various political opinions and re- flections : but the revolution in France is the grand ingredient in the cauldron . I confider the address ...
... religious fenti- ments , and not ill expreffed , mixed up with a fort of porridge of various political opinions and re- flections : but the revolution in France is the grand ingredient in the cauldron . I confider the address ...
Side 42
... religion by this confufion of duties . Those who quit their proper character , to affume what does not belong to them , are , for the greater part , ignorant both of the character they leave , and of the character they affume . Wholly ...
... religion by this confufion of duties . Those who quit their proper character , to affume what does not belong to them , are , for the greater part , ignorant both of the character they leave , and of the character they affume . Wholly ...
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Side 79 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Side 121 - But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock; and as to the share of power, authority, and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society; for I have in my contemplation the civil social man, and no other.
Side 42 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Side 184 - It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection.
Side 79 - The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down to us, and from us in the same course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory, parts...
Side 183 - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Side 79 - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.
Side 172 - Who, born within the last forty years, has read one word of Collins, and Toland, and Tindal, and Chubb, and Morgan, and that whole race who called themselves Freethinkers? Who now reads Bolingbroke? Who ever read him through?
Side 78 - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Side 36 - Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered?