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Page xxiii
... rules that form the basis of private morality are not founded in reason ; that is , in the abstract properties of those things which are the subjects of them , but in the nature of man , and his capacity of being affected by certain ...
... rules that form the basis of private morality are not founded in reason ; that is , in the abstract properties of those things which are the subjects of them , but in the nature of man , and his capacity of being affected by certain ...
Page xxxix
... rule , the well- known passage , ' Consider the lilies , how they grow , ' & c.1 Το illustrate the effect produced by its systematic employment , we will take a passage from the present volume , and compare it with a passage to the same ...
... rule , the well- known passage , ' Consider the lilies , how they grow , ' & c.1 Το illustrate the effect produced by its systematic employment , we will take a passage from the present volume , and compare it with a passage to the same ...
Page xl
... rule . It is , however , a safe maxim to employ Repetition ; not in our vulgar sense , but as answering to what the Rhetoricians called Interpretatio ; in the words of Arch- bishop Whately , ' to repeat the same sentiment and argument ...
... rule . It is , however , a safe maxim to employ Repetition ; not in our vulgar sense , but as answering to what the Rhetoricians called Interpretatio ; in the words of Arch- bishop Whately , ' to repeat the same sentiment and argument ...
Page xliv
... rule , admitting of no exception , that a man will speak well in proportion as he has written much ; and that with equal talents he will be the finest extempore speaker , when no time for preparing is allowed , who has prepared himself ...
... rule , admitting of no exception , that a man will speak well in proportion as he has written much ; and that with equal talents he will be the finest extempore speaker , when no time for preparing is allowed , who has prepared himself ...
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... rule even with regard to themselves , on account of their vio- lence and instability . So that if you were to ... rules of public opinion are to be collected with great difficulty , and to be applied with equal uncertainty as to the ...
... rule even with regard to themselves , on account of their vio- lence and instability . So that if you were to ... rules of public opinion are to be collected with great difficulty , and to be applied with equal uncertainty as to the ...
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Page 177 - First, Sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Page 232 - Do you imagine then, that it is the land tax act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply which gives you your army? or that it is the mutiny bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No ! surely no ! It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Page 309 - Colony, for contributing their proportion to the Common Defence (such proportion to be raised under the Authority of the General Court or General Assembly of such Province or Colony and disposable by Parliament) and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the Civil Government and the administration of Justice...
Page 182 - 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.
Page 86 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 145 - ... patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Page 233 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 173 - Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age at least to be made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough...
Page 168 - I am sensible that a good deal more is still to be done. Indeed, sir, to enable us to determine both on the one and the other of these great questions with a firm and precise judgment, I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us. Because after...
Page 169 - Whilst we spend our time in deliberating on the mode of governing Two Millions, we shall find we have Millions more to manage. Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood, than they spread from families to communities, and from villages to nations.