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Side 6
... regard to her ac- tual power , or to her influence and example . As to the former , he had fpoken ; as to the latter , ( her example ) he should fay a few words : for by this example our friendship and our intercourfe with that nation ...
... regard to her ac- tual power , or to her influence and example . As to the former , he had fpoken ; as to the latter , ( her example ) he should fay a few words : for by this example our friendship and our intercourfe with that nation ...
Side 45
... regard to that fundamental principle of British constitutional policy , than at the time of the revolution , when it deviated from the direct line of hereditary fucceffion . The crown was carried fomewhat out of the line in which it had ...
... regard to that fundamental principle of British constitutional policy , than at the time of the revolution , when it deviated from the direct line of hereditary fucceffion . The crown was carried fomewhat out of the line in which it had ...
Side 46
... regard to the obvious confequences of their doctrine , though they must fee , that it leaves pofitive authority in very few of the pofitive inftitutions of this country . Wher fuch an unwarrantable maxim is once established , that no ...
... regard to the obvious confequences of their doctrine , though they must fee , that it leaves pofitive authority in very few of the pofitive inftitutions of this country . Wher fuch an unwarrantable maxim is once established , that no ...
Side 72
... regard to the ftability of any inftitution ; men formed to be inftruments , not controls . Such in ge- neral was the compofition of the Tiers Etat in the national affembly ; in which was fcarcely to be per- ceived the flighteft traces ...
... regard to the ftability of any inftitution ; men formed to be inftruments , not controls . Such in ge- neral was the compofition of the Tiers Etat in the national affembly ; in which was fcarcely to be per- ceived the flighteft traces ...
Side 74
... regard was had to the general fecurity of property , or to the aptitude of the deputies for their public purpofes , in the prin- ciples of their election . That election was fo con- trived as to fend a very large proportion of mere ...
... regard was had to the general fecurity of property , or to the aptitude of the deputies for their public purpofes , in the prin- ciples of their election . That election was fo con- trived as to fend a very large proportion of mere ...
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Side 111 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Side 93 - The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity ; and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions, I am at no loss to decide that the artificers are grossly ignorant of their trade, or totally negligent of their duty.
Side 136 - 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 95 - Sir, I never liked this continual talk of resistance and revolution, or the practice of making the extreme medicine of the constitution its daily bread.
Side 135 - By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that, by their poisonous weeds and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life.
Side 445 - ... contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance, the usurpation cannot alter the right of things. Sovereignty, as a matter of right, appertains to the Nation only, and not to any individual ; and a Nation has at all times...
Side 58 - 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 97 - This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man, that they have totally forgot his nature. Without opening one new avenue to the understanding, they have succeeded in stopping up those that lead to the heart. They have perverted in themselves, and in those that attend to them, all the well-placed sympathies of the human breast.
Side 94 - ... infinitely captivating. In effect each would answer its single end much more perfectly than the more complex is able to attain all its complex purposes. But it is better that the whole should be imperfectly and anomalously answered than that, while some parts are provided for with great exactness, others might be totally neglected, or perhaps materially injured, by the over-care of a favourite member.
Side 134 - By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways, as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.