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... duties of these two situations are , in general , directly opposite to each other . Speculators ought to be neutral . A mi- nister cannot be so . He is to support the interest of the public as connected with that of his master.— He is ...
... duties of these two situations are , in general , directly opposite to each other . Speculators ought to be neutral . A mi- nister cannot be so . He is to support the interest of the public as connected with that of his master.— He is ...
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... duty of parliament , to refuse to support government , until power was in the hands of persons who were acceptable to the people , or while fac- tions predominated in the court in which the nation had no confidence . Thus all the good ...
... duty of parliament , to refuse to support government , until power was in the hands of persons who were acceptable to the people , or while fac- tions predominated in the court in which the nation had no confidence . Thus all the good ...
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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 themselves guilty of all the present distraction , and of 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 themselves guilty of all the present distraction , and of 7.
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... duty , or to accommodate the one to the other . I do not hesitate to say , that the road to eminence and power , from obscure condition , ought not to be made too easy , nor a thing too much of course . If rare merit be the rarest of ...
... duty , or to accommodate the one to the other . I do not hesitate to say , that the road to eminence and power , from obscure condition , ought not to be made too easy , nor a thing too much of course . If rare merit be the rarest of ...
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... duty . They are of a tame , timid , languid , inert temper wherever the welfare of others is concerned . In such causes , as they have no motives to action , they never possess any real ability , and are totally destitute of all ...
... duty . They are of a tame , timid , languid , inert temper wherever the welfare of others is concerned . In such causes , as they have no motives to action , they never possess any real ability , and are totally destitute of all ...
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Page 62 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, — and ever will be so, as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind.
Page 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.
Page 101 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.
Page 139 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of...
Page 63 - Those who quit their proper character, to assume •what does not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave, and of the character rthey assume.
Page 81 - The science of government being therefore so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and observing he may be, it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice, which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or of building it up again without having models and patterns of approved...
Page 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...
Page 25 - The strong struggle in every individual to preserve possession of what he has found to belong to him and to distinguish him, is one of the securities against injustice and despotism implanted in our nature. It operates as an instinct to secure property, and to preserve communities in a settled state. What is there to shock in this? Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Page 122 - ... proceeded in supplying government as liberally, if you had not stepped in and hindered them from contributing, by interrupting the channel in which their liberality flowed with so strong a course ; by attempting to take, instead of being satisfied to receive ? Sir William Temple says, that Holland has loaded itself with ten times the impositions which it revolted from Spain, rather than submit to. He says true. Tyranny is a poor provider. It knows neither how to accumulate, nor how to extract.