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... nature and of history . He was , however , a fair specimen of the active and popular monarch . Modelling himself , not on those who preceded him , but on the noblemen by whom he was surrounded , he devoted such talents as he had to the ...
... nature and of history . He was , however , a fair specimen of the active and popular monarch . Modelling himself , not on those who preceded him , but on the noblemen by whom he was surrounded , he devoted such talents as he had to the ...
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... nature in its arguments , and is in fact a piece of the purest Whiggism ' . But it was an attack on existing interests in the guise of Reform ; suggested an ideal Whiggism , purified from corruption and faction ; and teemed with the ...
... nature in its arguments , and is in fact a piece of the purest Whiggism ' . But it was an attack on existing interests in the guise of Reform ; suggested an ideal Whiggism , purified from corruption and faction ; and teemed with the ...
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Edmund Burke Edward John Payne. " to the nature of these early principles . He hated the party in which his friend had found himself by accident , and confirmed himself by consideration ; and he charged Burke with selling himself , and ...
Edmund Burke Edward John Payne. " to the nature of these early principles . He hated the party in which his friend had found himself by accident , and confirmed himself by consideration ; and he charged Burke with selling himself , and ...
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... nature enlarged . Abstract principles , like most things , have their use and their abuse : and the confusion of these has been a main difficulty to the thinking world . To the use of them we owe all our systems , and the effect of our ...
... nature enlarged . Abstract principles , like most things , have their use and their abuse : and the confusion of these has been a main difficulty to the thinking world . To the use of them we owe all our systems , and the effect of our ...
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... nature of man , and his capacity of being affected by certain things from habit , from imagination , and sentiment ... nature the creature of habit and feeling , and because it is reasonable that he should act in conformity to his nature ...
... nature of man , and his capacity of being affected by certain things from habit , from imagination , and sentiment ... nature the creature of habit and feeling , and because it is reasonable that he should act in conformity to his nature ...
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Página 177 - First, Sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Página 232 - Do you imagine then, that it is the land tax act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply which gives you your army? or that it is the mutiny bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No ! surely no ! It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Página 309 - Colony, for contributing their proportion to the Common Defence (such proportion to be raised under the Authority of the General Court or General Assembly of such Province or Colony and disposable by Parliament) and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the Civil Government and the administration of Justice...
Página 182 - 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.
Página 86 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página 145 - ... patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Página 233 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Página 173 - Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age at least to be made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough...
Página 168 - I am sensible that a good deal more is still to be done. Indeed, sir, to enable us to determine both on the one and the other of these great questions with a firm and precise judgment, I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us. Because after...
Página 169 - Whilst we spend our time in deliberating on the mode of governing Two Millions, we shall find we have Millions more to manage. Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood, than they spread from families to communities, and from villages to nations.