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Página 113
... contribution , or patriotick prefents ? Are filver fhoe - buckles to be fubftituted in the place of the land tax and the malt tax , for the fupport of the naval ftrength of this kingdom ? VOL . V. I ་ Are 1 Are all orders , ranks , and ...
... contribution , or patriotick prefents ? Are filver fhoe - buckles to be fubftituted in the place of the land tax and the malt tax , for the fupport of the naval ftrength of this kingdom ? VOL . V. I ་ Are 1 Are all orders , ranks , and ...
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... contribution of individuals . They go further . They certainly never have fuffered and never will fuffer the fixed eftate of the church to be converted into a penfion , to depend on the treasury , and to be delayed , withheld , or ...
... contribution of individuals . They go further . They certainly never have fuffered and never will fuffer the fixed eftate of the church to be converted into a penfion , to depend on the treasury , and to be delayed , withheld , or ...
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... contributions of the faithful , but from the infolent tenderness of known and avow , ed atheism , the maintenance of religion , measured out to them on the standard of the contempt in which it is held ; and for the purpose of render ...
... contributions of the faithful , but from the infolent tenderness of known and avow , ed atheism , the maintenance of religion , measured out to them on the standard of the contempt in which it is held ; and for the purpose of render ...
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... contributed largely , by every species of prodigality in war and peace , to the present debt of France . If any fuch re- mains , why is not this confifcated ? I remember to have been in Paris during the time of the old government . I ...
... contributed largely , by every species of prodigality in war and peace , to the present debt of France . If any fuch re- mains , why is not this confifcated ? I remember to have been in Paris during the time of the old government . I ...
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... then what can be faid in favour of thofe , who , inftead of moderate , reafonable , and general contribution , have in cold blood , and impelled impelled by no neceffity , had recourse to a partial 220 REFLECTIONS ON THE.
... then what can be faid in favour of thofe , who , inftead of moderate , reafonable , and general contribution , have in cold blood , and impelled impelled by no neceffity , had recourse to a partial 220 REFLECTIONS ON THE.
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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?