Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Volume 1Whittingham and Arliss, 1815 - English literature |
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... MONARCHS . MONARCHY .. LABOUR PHYSICALLY CONSIDERED ............ LABOUR , CONSIDERED AS A COMMODITY ........... LANDED PROPRIETORS .. 158 .......... ............. 159 159 160 162 .............. 163 167 LAW ......... .....
... MONARCHS . MONARCHY .. LABOUR PHYSICALLY CONSIDERED ............ LABOUR , CONSIDERED AS A COMMODITY ........... LANDED PROPRIETORS .. 158 .......... ............. 159 159 160 162 .............. 163 167 LAW ......... .....
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... monarchy , in which mode of govern- ment the classing of the citizens is not of so much importance as in a republic . It is true , however , that every such classification , if properly ordered , is good in all forms of government ; and ...
... monarchy , in which mode of govern- ment the classing of the citizens is not of so much importance as in a republic . It is true , however , that every such classification , if properly ordered , is good in all forms of government ; and ...
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... monarchy is supported ; nor can he support monarchy on the principles of democracy ; nor can he maintain aristo- cracy on the grounds of the one or of the other , or of both . All these he must support on grounds that are totally ...
... monarchy is supported ; nor can he support monarchy on the principles of democracy ; nor can he maintain aristo- cracy on the grounds of the one or of the other , or of both . All these he must support on grounds that are totally ...
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... any thing which merits the name of a politic enterprize . CREDIT . CREDIT cannot exist under the arm of necessity . Necessity strikes at credit , I allow , with a heavier and quicker blow under an arbitrary monarchy , than under a 68.
... any thing which merits the name of a politic enterprize . CREDIT . CREDIT cannot exist under the arm of necessity . Necessity strikes at credit , I allow , with a heavier and quicker blow under an arbitrary monarchy , than under a 68.
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... monarchy , when once it is properly re gulated , may not for a long time furnish a foundation for credit upon the solidity of its maxims , though it affords no ground of trust in its institutions . CRIMES SHOULD NOT BE CONFOUNDED . THE ...
... monarchy , when once it is properly re gulated , may not for a long time furnish a foundation for credit upon the solidity of its maxims , though it affords no ground of trust in its institutions . CRIMES SHOULD NOT BE CONFOUNDED . THE ...
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Page 173 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Page 174 - All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.
Page 140 - But, his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living.
Page 136 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission ; without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Page 120 - It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our constitution ; or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not altogether tired you, give you very striking and convincing instances of it.
Page 53 - Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.
Page 135 - 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.
Page 136 - 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...
Page 178 - Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them.
Page 100 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.