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Página 71
... scheme of cashiering kings for misconduct . ' In that light 66 it is worth fome obfervation . 99 Kings , in one fenfe , are undoubtedly the fer- vants of the people , because their power has no other rational end than that of the ...
... scheme of cashiering kings for misconduct . ' In that light 66 it is worth fome obfervation . 99 Kings , in one fenfe , are undoubtedly the fer- vants of the people , because their power has no other rational end than that of the ...
Página 111
... scheme of politicks re lative to this country , in which your proceedings may , in fome way , be useful . For your Dr. Price , who seems to have fpeculated himself into no small degree degree of fervour upon this fubject , addreffes kis ...
... scheme of politicks re lative to this country , in which your proceedings may , in fome way , be useful . For your Dr. Price , who seems to have fpeculated himself into no small degree degree of fervour upon this fubject , addreffes kis ...
Página 124
... schemes , with very pleafing commencements , have often fhameful and lament- able conclufions . In ftates there are often fome obfcure and almost latent causes , things which ap- pear at firft view of little moment , on which a very ...
... schemes , with very pleafing commencements , have often fhameful and lament- able conclufions . In ftates there are often fome obfcure and almost latent causes , things which ap- pear at firft view of little moment , on which a very ...
Página 128
... a war or a revolution , or it is nothing . Find , ing their schemes of politicks not adapted to the ftate of the world in which they live , they often come come to think lightly of all publick principle ; and 128 REFLECTIONS ON THE.
... a war or a revolution , or it is nothing . Find , ing their schemes of politicks not adapted to the ftate of the world in which they live , they often come come to think lightly of all publick principle ; and 128 REFLECTIONS ON THE.
Página 161
... scheme for maffacring the national affembly ( I think I have seen something like the latter infinu ated in certain publications ) , I should think their captivity juft . If this be true , much more ought to have been done , but done ...
... scheme for maffacring the national affembly ( I think I have seen something like the latter infinu ated in certain publications ) , I should think their captivity juft . If this be true , much more ought to have been done , but done ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 79 - ... 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 121 - 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.
Página 42 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Página 184 - It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection.
Página 79 - 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, parts...
Página 183 - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Página 79 - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.
Página 172 - Who, born within the last forty years, has read one word of Collins, and Toland, and Tindal, and Chubb, and Morgan, and that whole race who called themselves Freethinkers? Who now reads Bolingbroke? Who ever read him through?
Página 78 - 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 36 - Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered?