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... rule of indiscriminate support to all ministers ; because this destroys the very end of parliament as a controul , and is a general previous sanction to mis- government ; and secondly , the setting up any claims adverse to the right of ...
... rule of indiscriminate support to all ministers ; because this destroys the very end of parliament as a controul , and is a general previous sanction to mis- government ; and secondly , the setting up any claims adverse to the right of ...
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... rules and principles of contending interests and com- promised advantages . The consumer , if he were suf- fered , would in the end always be the dupe of his own tyranny and injustice . The landed gentleman is never to forget , that the ...
... rules and principles of contending interests and com- promised advantages . The consumer , if he were suf- fered , would in the end always be the dupe of his own tyranny and injustice . The landed gentleman is never to forget , that the ...
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... rule of conduct . To diet a man into weakness and languor , afterwards to give him the greater strength , has more of the empiric than the rational physician . It is true that some persons have been kicked into courage ; and this is no ...
... rule of conduct . To diet a man into weakness and languor , afterwards to give him the greater strength , has more of the empiric than the rational physician . It is true that some persons have been kicked into courage ; and this is no ...
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... rules of dexterous conduct to make an acknowledgment of a contested title in your enemy , before you are morally certain ... rule that a sovereign never should let down his dignity without a sure payment to his interest , the dignity of ...
... rules of dexterous conduct to make an acknowledgment of a contested title in your enemy , before you are morally certain ... rule that a sovereign never should let down his dignity without a sure payment to his interest , the dignity of ...
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... rule . In this you think you are combating prejudice , but you are at war with nature . OLIGARCHY . In all considerations which turn upon the question of vesting or continuing the state solely and exclusively in some one description of ...
... rule . In this you think you are combating prejudice , but you are at war with nature . OLIGARCHY . In all considerations which turn upon the question of vesting or continuing the state solely and exclusively in some one description of ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 41 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle...
Página 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.
Página 101 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...