Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volumen2Whittingham and Arliss, 1815 |
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... we can contemplate only in the parts , and often without the necessary relations . Ministers are not only our natural rulers but our na- tural guides . Reason clearly and manfully delivered , has in itself a mighty force : but reason in 2.
... we can contemplate only in the parts , and often without the necessary relations . Ministers are not only our natural rulers but our na- tural guides . Reason clearly and manfully delivered , has in itself a mighty force : but reason in 2.
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... natural tendency to exclude bad men from government , and not to trust for the safety of the state to subsequent punishment alone : punishment , which has ever been tardy and uncertain ; and which , when power is suffered in bad hands ...
... natural tendency to exclude bad men from government , and not to trust for the safety of the state to subsequent punishment alone : punishment , which has ever been tardy and uncertain ; and which , when power is suffered in bad hands ...
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... nature is still further enfeebled by art and contrivance ? It must subvert government from the very foundation . It turns our public councils into the most mischievous cabals ; where the consideration is , not how the nation's business ...
... nature is still further enfeebled by art and contrivance ? It must subvert government from the very foundation . It turns our public councils into the most mischievous cabals ; where the consideration is , not how the nation's business ...
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... nature , that hinders us from perceiving and yielding to them : but we are not to suffer our vices to usurp the place of our judgment . **** A greater and more ruinous mistake cannot be fallen into , than that the trades of agriculture ...
... nature , that hinders us from perceiving and yielding to them : but we are not to suffer our vices to usurp the place of our judgment . **** A greater and more ruinous mistake cannot be fallen into , than that the trades of agriculture ...
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... natural weight and authority . Nothing can secure a steady and moderate conduct in such as- semblies , but that the body of them should be respec- tably composed , in point of condition in life , of per- manent property , of education ...
... natural weight and authority . Nothing can secure a steady and moderate conduct in such as- semblies , but that the body of them should be respec- tably composed , in point of condition in life , of per- manent property , of education ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 142 - ... are rarely minds of remarkable enlargement. Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business not to be much more important than the forms in which it is conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions ; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office do admirably well as long as things go on in their common order ; but when the high roads are broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file affords no precedent,...
Página 171 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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 in which they are all agreed.
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 154 - North. He was a man of admirable parts; of general knowledge; of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business; of infinite wit and pleasantry; of a delightful temper; and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command, that the time required.
Página 62 - In reality, poetry and rhetoric do not succeed in exact description so well as painting does; their business is to affect rather by sympathy than imitation; to display rather the effect of things on the mind of the speaker, or of others, than to present a clear idea of the things themselves.
Página 66 - Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices, employ their sagacity to discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. If they find what they seek (and they seldom fail) they think it more wise to continue the prejudice, with the reason involved, than to cast away the coat of prejudice and to leave nothing but the naked reason...
Página 26 - For though hereditary wealth, and the rank which goes with it, are too much idolized by creeping sycophants, and the blind, abject admirers of power, they are too rashly slighted in shallow speculations of the petulant, assuming, shortsighted coxcombs of philosophy. Some decent, regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolitic.