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Page 181 - Trouver une forme d'association qui défende et protège de toute la force commune la personne et les biens de chaque associé, et par laquelle chacun, s'unissant à tous, n'obéisse pourtant qu'à lui-même, et reste aussi libre qu'auparavant!
Page 25 - Content!' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Page 16 - Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words ? hath he not sent me to the men...
Page 8 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Page 280 - Foreign politics demand scarcely any of those qualities which a democracy possesses; and they require, on the contrary, the perfect use of almost all those faculties in which it is deficient.
Page 182 - D'ailleurs tout malfaiteur, attaquant le droit social, devient par ses forfaits rebelle et traître à la patrie, il cesse d'en être membre en violant ses lois, et même il lui fait la guerre. Alors la conservation de l'Etat est incompatible avec la sienne, il faut qu'un des deux périsse, et quand on fait mourir le coupable, c'est moins comme Citoyen que comme ennemi.
Page vii - The fluctuating, and taking its future increase into the account, the multitudinous composition of that body, forbid us to expect in it those qualities which are essential to the proper execution of such a trust. Accurate and comprehensive knowledge of foreign politics; a steady and systematic adherence to the same views; a nice and uniform sensibility to national character, decision, secrecy and dispatch; are incompatible with the genius of a body so variable and so numerous.
Page 40 - ... extending over a great part of the world. The Chinese are numerous. You have millions and millions of subjects. The twenty-six United States are as large as China, though our people are not so numerous The rising sun looks upon the great mountains and great rivers of China. When he sets, he looks upon rivers and mountains equally large in the United States. Our territories extend from one great ocean to the other ; and on the west we are divided from your dominions only by the sea. Leaving the...
Page 279 - As for myself, I have no hesitation in avowing my conviction, that it is most especially in the conduct of foreign relations, that democratic governments appear to me to be decidedly inferior to governments carried on upon different principles.
Page 8 - himself, and serviceable to his country, he should always, " and upon all occasions, speak the truth.