A Review of the Constitutions of the Principal States of Europe, and of the United States of America: Given Originally as Lectures, Volumen1G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1792 |
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Página 3 - ... to meet with the majority of a people eminent for every virtue; but if there is one common to a whole nation it is valour; for this...
Página 4 - Now a tyranny is a monarchy where the good of one man only is the object of government, an oligarchy considers only the rich, and a democracy only the poor; but neither of them have a common good in view.
Página 3 - ... usually call a state which is governed by one person for the common good, a kingdom; one that is governed by more than one, but by a few only, an aristocracy; either because the government is in the hands of the most worthy citizens, or because it is the best form for the city and its inhabitants. When the citizens at large govern for the public good, it is called a state; which is also a common name for all other governments...
Página 3 - HAVING established these particulars, we come to consider next the different number of governments which there are, and what they are; and first, what are their excellencies: for when we have determined this, their defects will be evident enough. It is evident that every form of government or administration, for the words are of the same import, must contain a supreme power over the whole state, and this supreme power must necessarily be in the hands of one person, or a few, or many; and when either...
Página 433 - But neither of thefe could as yet fufped him of that genius for intrigue, of that bold and enterprizing fpirit which have fmce diftinguifhed him; neither could hope that fuch a genius, whilft it was exerted to promote the particular interefts of the prince who poffefled it, fhould yet never lofe fight of the happinefs of the people ; that fuch a fpirit fhould be under the direction of prudence, and in its courfe be marked by a moderation as amiable as it is, rare.
Página lvi - Thefe errors have been corrected principally in notes ; and, where that method would have been too tedious, by fparing alterations in the text. For the general revifion of the chapters, .on the...
Página lvi - He has made the moft material miftakes in that part where he fpeaks of the benefit of clergy; and he is the more excufable for doing fo, as there is not perhaps to be found in any of...
Página 491 - The rough form of this colossal figure was softened by Elizabeth ; and it has received more of the human appearance from the able hand of Catherine II., who, by the...
Página 492 - Its true wellfare is more eflentialy promoted, by favouring population by wife laws; by encouraging induftry; by ir.crealiiig its riches by commerce ; by cultivating the arts, and reconciling them to a ftubborn foil, ungenial to their nature ; by meliorating the maaners of a...