Works, Volumen 3R. Cross, 1792 |
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... France totally varied every fort of fpeculation relative to that ba lance . That France is , at this time , in a political light , to be confidered as expunged out of the fyftem of Europe . Whether fhe could ever appear in it again , as ...
... France totally varied every fort of fpeculation relative to that ba lance . That France is , at this time , in a political light , to be confidered as expunged out of the fyftem of Europe . Whether fhe could ever appear in it again , as ...
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... France continued in this fwoon , we fhould go on increafing our expences , we fhould cer- tainly make ourselves lefs a match for her , when it be- came our concern to arm . It was faid , that as the had fpeedily fallen , fhe might ...
... France continued in this fwoon , we fhould go on increafing our expences , we fhould cer- tainly make ourselves lefs a match for her , when it be- came our concern to arm . It was faid , that as the had fpeedily fallen , fhe might ...
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... France to lie proftrate at our feet , we should be ashamed to fend a commiffion to fet- le their affairs , which could impofe fo hard a law upon the French , and so destructive of all their confe¬ quence as a nation , as that they had ...
... France to lie proftrate at our feet , we should be ashamed to fend a commiffion to fet- le their affairs , which could impofe fo hard a law upon the French , and so destructive of all their confe¬ quence as a nation , as that they had ...
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... France : but there is an evil there . The difeafe is altered ; but the vicinity of the two countries remains , and muft remain ; and the natural mental habits of man- kind are fuch , that the prefent diftemper of France is far more ...
... France : but there is an evil there . The difeafe is altered ; but the vicinity of the two countries remains , and muft remain ; and the natural mental habits of man- kind are fuch , that the prefent diftemper of France is far more ...
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... France , for a long time , to have been embodied into a faction , accredited , and almost avowed . These are our prefent dangers from France : but , in his opinion , the very worst part of the example fet , is in the late affumption of ...
... France , for a long time , to have been embodied into a faction , accredited , and almost avowed . These are our prefent dangers from France : but , in his opinion , the very worst part of the example fet , is in the late affumption of ...
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Página 111 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Página 93 - The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity ; and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions, I am at no loss to decide that the artificers are grossly ignorant of their trade, or totally negligent of their duty.
Página 136 - It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection.
Página 95 - Sir, I never liked this continual talk of resistance and revolution, or the practice of making the extreme medicine of the constitution its daily bread.
Página 135 - By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that, by their poisonous weeds and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life.
Página 445 - ... contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance, the usurpation cannot alter the right of things. Sovereignty, as a matter of right, appertains to the Nation only, and not to any individual ; and a Nation has at all times...
Página 58 - 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.
Página 97 - This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man, that they have totally forgot his nature. Without opening one new avenue to the understanding, they have succeeded in stopping up those that lead to the heart. They have perverted in themselves, and in those that attend to them, all the well-placed sympathies of the human breast.
Página 94 - ... infinitely captivating. In effect each would answer its single end much more perfectly than the more complex is able to attain all its complex purposes. But it is better that the whole should be imperfectly and anomalously answered than that, while some parts are provided for with great exactness, others might be totally neglected, or perhaps materially injured, by the over-care of a favourite member.
Página 134 - By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways, as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.