Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents |
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... course pro- duce all the effects which the most fanguine partizans of the Court could poffibly defire . Government might then be carried on without any concurrence on the part of the people ; without any attention to the dignity of the ...
... course pro- duce all the effects which the most fanguine partizans of the Court could poffibly defire . Government might then be carried on without any concurrence on the part of the people ; without any attention to the dignity of the ...
Page 32
... course of changes , that power fhould be recovered , the Junto have thrown up a retrenchment of these carcafes , which may ferve to cover themselves in a day of danger . They conclude , not unwifely , that fuch rotten members will ...
... course of changes , that power fhould be recovered , the Junto have thrown up a retrenchment of these carcafes , which may ferve to cover themselves in a day of danger . They conclude , not unwifely , that fuch rotten members will ...
Page 63
... , that a King has fome fort of in- terest in giving uneafiness to his subjects : that all who are pleafing to them , are to be of course disagreeable disagreeable to him : that as foon as the per- THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS . 63.
... , that a King has fome fort of in- terest in giving uneafiness to his subjects : that all who are pleafing to them , are to be of course disagreeable disagreeable to him : that as foon as the per- THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS . 63.
Page 64
... course of action ; none capable of ferving it , but those who are obliged to call at every inftant upon all its power for the fafety of their lives . None are supposed to be fit priefts in the temple of Go- vernment , but the perfons ...
... course of action ; none capable of ferving it , but those who are obliged to call at every inftant upon all its power for the fafety of their lives . None are supposed to be fit priefts in the temple of Go- vernment , but the perfons ...
Page 69
... course of acting as from original power , is the way in which all the popular magiftracies in the world have been perverted from their purposes . It is indeed their greatest and fometimes their incurable corruption . For there is a ...
... course of acting as from original power , is the way in which all the popular magiftracies in the world have been perverted from their purposes . It is indeed their greatest and fometimes their incurable corruption . For there is a ...
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Popular passages
Page 110 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 110 - Therefore every honourable connexion will avow it is their first purpose, to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution, with all the power and authority of the state.
Page 115 - To model our principles to our duties and our situation. To be 'fully persuaded that all virtue which is impracticable is spurious ; and rather to run the risk of falling into faults in a course which leads us to act with effect and energy, than to loiter out our days without blame and without use.
Page 107 - Commonwealths are made of families, free commonwealths of parties also ; and we may as well affirm, that our natural regards and ties of blood tend inevitably to make men bad citizens, as that the bonds of our party weaken those by which we are held to our country.
Page 105 - Where men are not acquainted with each other's principles, nor experienced in each other's talents, nor at all practised in their mutual habitudes and dispositions by joint efforts in business ; no personal confidence, no friendship, no common interest, subsisting among them ; it is evidently impossible that they can act a public part with uniformity, perseverance, or efficacy.
Page 114 - Men thinking freely, will, in particular instances, think differently. But still as the greater part of the measures which arise in the course of public business are related to, or dependent on, some great leading general principles in government, a man must be peculiarly unfortunate in the choice of his political company if he does not agree with them at least nine times in ten.
Page 12 - The power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as Prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength, and far less odium, under the name of Influence. An influence, which...
Page 115 - 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. To cultivate friendships, and to incur enmities. To have both strong, but both selected : in the one, to be placable ; in the other, immovable.
Page 109 - Thy favourites grow not up by Fortune's sport, Or from the crimes or follies of a court : On the firm basis of desert they rise, From long-tried faith, and friendship's holy ties.
Page 106 - This innoxious and ineffectual character, that seems formed upon a plan of apology and disculpation, falls miserably short of the mark of public duty. That duty demands and requires, that what is right should not only be made known, but made prevalent ; that what is evil should not only be detected, but defeated.