A Comparative Display of the Different Opinions of the Most Distinguished British Writers on the Subject of the French Revolution: Followed by a Review, and Comparison with Events, Bind 2P. Stuart, 1811 |
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... exercise a generous but tem- perate hofpitality ; part of whofe income they are to confider as a truft for charity ; and who , even when they fail in their truft , when they flide from their their character , and degenerate into a mere ...
... exercise a generous but tem- perate hofpitality ; part of whofe income they are to confider as a truft for charity ; and who , even when they fail in their truft , when they flide from their their character , and degenerate into a mere ...
Side 21
... exercise , in fome cafes , fome- thing like an authority . What must they think of that body of teachers , if they fee it in no part above the establishment of their domeftic fervants ? If the poverty were voluntary , there might be ...
... exercise , in fome cafes , fome- thing like an authority . What must they think of that body of teachers , if they fee it in no part above the establishment of their domeftic fervants ? If the poverty were voluntary , there might be ...
Side 32
... exercise all forts of cruelties on each other without provocation , thought it ne- ceffary to fpread a fort of colour over their injuftice . They confidered the vanquished party as com- pofed of traitors who had borne arms , or other ...
... exercise all forts of cruelties on each other without provocation , thought it ne- ceffary to fpread a fort of colour over their injuftice . They confidered the vanquished party as com- pofed of traitors who had borne arms , or other ...
Side 83
... exercise tyranny themselves . Habitual freedom produces effects directly the reverse in every particular . For a proof of this , look into America ; or , if that be too much trouble , look into human nature with the eyes of common fenfe ...
... exercise tyranny themselves . Habitual freedom produces effects directly the reverse in every particular . For a proof of this , look into America ; or , if that be too much trouble , look into human nature with the eyes of common fenfe ...
Side 99
... exercising religious functions , or by holding any certain rank within the church establishment ; between which and all other property it feems that no diftinction can be juftly made ; or , if any , fuch only as must be entirely in its ...
... exercising religious functions , or by holding any certain rank within the church establishment ; between which and all other property it feems that no diftinction can be juftly made ; or , if any , fuch only as must be entirely in its ...
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Side 143 - 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 260 - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Side 144 - 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 ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Side 144 - 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...
Side 20 - Winchester, in possession of ten thousand pounds a year; and cannot conceive why it is in worse hands than estates to the like amount in the hands of this earl, or that squire...
Side 214 - 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 217 - 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; but that which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may arise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning.
Side 441 - ... circumspection, in a state of things in which no fault is committed with impunity and the slightest mistakes draw on the most ruinous consequences ; to be led to a guarded and regulated conduct, from a sense that you are considered as an instructor of your fellow-citizens in...
Side 214 - It is a thing to be settled by convention. If civil society be the offspring of convention, that convention must be its law. That convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed under it. Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power, are its creatures. They can have no being in any other state of things...
Side 239 - Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the natural rights of others.