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... known rank ; some of shining talents ; but of any practical experience in the state , not one man was to be found . The best were only men of theory . But whatever the dis- tinguished few may have been , it is the substance and mass of ...
... known rank ; some of shining talents ; but of any practical experience in the state , not one man was to be found . The best were only men of theory . But whatever the dis- tinguished few may have been , it is the substance and mass of ...
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... known to be so ; that he should not be looked upon as a stipendiary advocate , but as a principled partizan . In all treaty it is a great point that all idea of gaining your agent is hopeless . I would not trust the cause of royalty ...
... known to be so ; that he should not be looked upon as a stipendiary advocate , but as a principled partizan . In all treaty it is a great point that all idea of gaining your agent is hopeless . I would not trust the cause of royalty ...
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... known or in contempt , but they are like a battery in which the stroke of any one ball produces no great effect , but the amount of continual repetition is de- cisive . Let us only suffer any person to tell us his story , morning and ...
... known or in contempt , but they are like a battery in which the stroke of any one ball produces no great effect , but the amount of continual repetition is de- cisive . Let us only suffer any person to tell us his story , morning and ...
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... known , and would be highly disgraceful . Instances of other ill - treatment of the humble part of the com- munity were rare : and as to attacks made upon the property or the personal liberty of the commons , I never heard of any ...
... known , and would be highly disgraceful . Instances of other ill - treatment of the humble part of the com- munity were rare : and as to attacks made upon the property or the personal liberty of the commons , I never heard of any ...
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... known , but made prevalent ; that what is evil should not only be detected , but defeated . When the public man omits to put himself in a situation of doing his duty with effect , it is an omission that frustrates the purposes of his ...
... known , but made prevalent ; that what is evil should not only be detected , but defeated . When the public man omits to put himself in a situation of doing his duty with effect , it is an omission that frustrates the purposes of his ...
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Página 91 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Página 105 - The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes ; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. Th6 rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. The rights of men in governments are their advantages ; and these are often in balances between differences of good ; in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes, between evil and evil.
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...
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 26 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
Página 103 - ... inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection. This can only be done by a power out of themselves ; and not, in the exercise of its function, subject to that will and to those passions which it is its office to bridle and sub102 due. In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.
Página 139 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of...