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... trust to the activity of avarice in the pursuit of its own gains ; when it secures public robbery by all the careful jealousy and attention with which it ought to protect property from such violence ; the common- wealth then is become ...
... trust to the activity of avarice in the pursuit of its own gains ; when it secures public robbery by all the careful jealousy and attention with which it ought to protect property from such violence ; the common- wealth then is become ...
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... trust , and to exercise those spe- cial functions in their place . BONDS OF NATIONS . THE operation of dangerous and delusive first prin- ciples obliges us to have recourse to the true ones . In the intercourse between nations , we are ...
... trust , and to exercise those spe- cial functions in their place . BONDS OF NATIONS . THE operation of dangerous and delusive first prin- ciples obliges us to have recourse to the true ones . In the intercourse between nations , we are ...
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... trust to either , is to disregard our own safety , or not to know mankind . Men are not tied to one another by papers and seals . They are led to associate by resemblances , by conformities , by sympathies . It is with nations as with ...
... trust to either , is to disregard our own safety , or not to know mankind . Men are not tied to one another by papers and seals . They are led to associate by resemblances , by conformities , by sympathies . It is with nations as with ...
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... trust of power , without any of the virtues or any of the energies , that give a title to it ; a receipt of policy , made up of a detestable compound of malice , cowardice , and sloth . They would govern men against their will but 15.
... trust of power , without any of the virtues or any of the energies , that give a title to it ; a receipt of policy , made up of a detestable compound of malice , cowardice , and sloth . They would govern men against their will but 15.
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... trust : But a total exclusion from the commonwealth is a very different thing . When a government subsists ( as governments formerly did ) on an estate of its own , with but few and inconsiderable revenues drawn from the subject , then ...
... trust : But a total exclusion from the commonwealth is a very different thing . When a government subsists ( as governments formerly did ) on an estate of its own , with but few and inconsiderable revenues drawn from the subject , then ...
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Página 181 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Página 182 - All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off.
Página 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, 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.
Página 144 - Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Página 149 - But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and, • what sort of reason is that, in which the determination...
Página 126 - It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our constitution ; or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not altogether tired you, give you very striking and convincing instances of it.
Página 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.
Página 53 - Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.
Página 186 - Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them.
Página 106 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.