Maxims, Opinions and Characters, Moral, Political, and Economical, Том 2Whittingham and Arliss, 1815 |
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... part in the formation or the support of systems construct- ed in such a manner as must , in their nature , disable them from the execution of their duty , have made their themselves guilty of all the present distraction , and 7.
... part in the formation or the support of systems construct- ed in such a manner as must , in their nature , disable them from the execution of their duty , have made their themselves guilty of all the present distraction , and 7.
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... manner un- 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 ...
... manner un- 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 ...
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... manner of power ; in the country very little . You know , Sir , that much of the civil government , and the police ... manners of England , which im- paired their natural character , without substituting in its place what perhaps they ...
... manner of power ; in the country very little . You know , Sir , that much of the civil government , and the police ... manners of England , which im- paired their natural character , without substituting in its place what perhaps they ...
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... manner that his en- deavours could not possibly be productive of any consequence . I do not wonder that the behaviour of many parties should have made persons of tender and scrupulous virtue somewhat out of humour with all sorts of con- 37.
... manner that his en- deavours could not possibly be productive of any consequence . I do not wonder that the behaviour of many parties should have made persons of tender and scrupulous virtue somewhat out of humour with all sorts of con- 37.
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... manner in which they are received . These dis- cover the temper of the parties . If your enemy offers peace in the moment of success , it indicates that he is satisfied with something . It shews that there are limits to his ambition or ...
... manner in which they are received . These dis- cover the temper of the parties . If your enemy offers peace in the moment of success , it indicates that he is satisfied with something . It shews that there are limits to his ambition or ...
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Сторінка 142 - ... are rarely minds of remarkable enlargement. Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business not to be much more important than the forms in which it is conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions ; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office do admirably well as long as things go on in their common order ; but when the high roads are broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file affords no precedent,...
Сторінка 171 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 41 - 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 101 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
Сторінка 154 - North. He was a man of admirable parts; of general knowledge; of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business; of infinite wit and pleasantry; of a delightful temper; and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command, that the time required.
Сторінка 62 - In reality, poetry and rhetoric do not succeed in exact description so well as painting does; their business is to affect rather by sympathy than imitation; to display rather the effect of things on the mind of the speaker, or of others, than to present a clear idea of the things themselves.
Сторінка 66 - Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices, employ their sagacity to discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. If they find what they seek (and they seldom fail) they think it more wise to continue the prejudice, with the reason involved, than to cast away the coat of prejudice and to leave nothing but the naked reason...
Сторінка 26 - For though hereditary wealth, and the rank which goes with it, are too much idolized by creeping sycophants, and the blind, abject admirers of power, they are too rashly slighted in shallow speculations of the petulant, assuming, shortsighted coxcombs of philosophy. Some decent, regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolitic.