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... antient govern- ment , would such tyranny in subjects have been per- mitted . As men of landed estates , I had no fault to find with their conduct , though much to reprehend , and much to wish changed , in many of the 28.
... antient govern- ment , would such tyranny in subjects have been per- mitted . As men of landed estates , I had no fault to find with their conduct , though much to reprehend , and much to wish changed , in many of the 28.
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... faults and errors . A foolish imitation of the worst part of the manners of England , which im- paired their natural character , without substituting in its place what perhaps they meant to copy , has cer- tainly rendered them worse ...
... faults and errors . A foolish imitation of the worst part of the manners of England , which im- paired their natural character , without substituting in its place what perhaps they meant to copy , has cer- tainly rendered them worse ...
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... faults in the morals of the no- bility would have been probably corrected , by the greater varieties of occupation and pursuit to which a constitution by orders would have given rise . TAXES PAID BY THE NOBILITY AND CLERGY OF FRANCE ...
... faults in the morals of the no- bility would have been probably corrected , by the greater varieties of occupation and pursuit to which a constitution by orders would have given rise . TAXES PAID BY THE NOBILITY AND CLERGY OF FRANCE ...
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... faults . PARTIES . THAT Connexion and faction are equivalent terms , is an opinion which has been carefully inculcated at all times by unconstitutional statesmen . The reason is evident . Whilst men are linked together , they easily and ...
... faults . PARTIES . THAT Connexion and faction are equivalent terms , is an opinion which has been carefully inculcated at all times by unconstitutional statesmen . The reason is evident . Whilst men are linked together , they easily and ...
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... fault of human nature is not of that sort . Power in whatever hands is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself . But one great advantage to the support of authority attends such an amicable and protecting connexion , that ...
... fault of human nature is not of that sort . Power in whatever hands is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself . But one great advantage to the support of authority attends such an amicable and protecting connexion , that ...
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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.