On National Government, Band 1J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... remarks . Should the reader however be still incredulous , he may turn to the Statute Book itself . Let him look to the old and the new statutes , and let him decide , if he can , which to prefer for obscurity . I fear , that the rea ...
... remarks . Should the reader however be still incredulous , he may turn to the Statute Book itself . Let him look to the old and the new statutes , and let him decide , if he can , which to prefer for obscurity . I fear , that the rea ...
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... remarks on the Spartan laws was to show , that they origi- nated in barbarous times . This I can manifest by the institutions themselves taken implicitly from the writings of their greatest admirers . Some say , that Lycurgus divided ...
... remarks on the Spartan laws was to show , that they origi- nated in barbarous times . This I can manifest by the institutions themselves taken implicitly from the writings of their greatest admirers . Some say , that Lycurgus divided ...
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... remarks will satisfy the present purpose , as I shall have occasion in the sequel of this work to show some capital defects in the constitution of the Athenians . If we turn our observation from ancient to mo- wisdom of a God than of a ...
... remarks will satisfy the present purpose , as I shall have occasion in the sequel of this work to show some capital defects in the constitution of the Athenians . If we turn our observation from ancient to mo- wisdom of a God than of a ...
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... remarks , and trivial innuendoes , which the listless and timid , the capri- cious and the invidious , the subtle , the interested , and the corrupt may unwarrantably utter . To con- jecture them , would be vain ; to refute them , would ...
... remarks , and trivial innuendoes , which the listless and timid , the capri- cious and the invidious , the subtle , the interested , and the corrupt may unwarrantably utter . To con- jecture them , would be vain ; to refute them , would ...
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... remark is not less strong now , than when it was made : " Philosophers have treated of legislation beautifully , but without use ; and lawyers have been too much controlled by the ' Rawley , his chaplain , says so in his preface to the ...
... remark is not less strong now , than when it was made : " Philosophers have treated of legislation beautifully , but without use ; and lawyers have been too much controlled by the ' Rawley , his chaplain , says so in his preface to the ...
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Seite 116 - The constitution of a country being once settled upon some compact, tacit or expressed, there is no power existing of force to alter it, without the breach of the covenant, or the consent of all the parties. Such is the nature of a contract.
Seite 210 - ... the same quantity of cultivated land would maintain a much greater number of people ; and the labourers being generally fed with potatoes, a greater surplus would remain after replacing all the stock, and maintaining all the labour employed in cultivation. A greater share of this surplus, too, would belong to the landlord. Population would increase, and rents would rise much beyond what they are at present.
Seite 19 - ... a more equal way by appointing more knights for every shire to be chosen, and fewer burgesses ; whereby the number of the whole was much lessened; and yet, the people being left to their own election, it was not thought an ill temperament, and was then generally looked upon as an alteration fit to be more warrantably made, and in a better time.
Seite 210 - Should this root ever become in any part of Europe, like rice in some rice countries, the common and favourite vegetable food of the people, so as to occupy the same proportion of the lands in tillage which wheat and other sorts of...
Seite 370 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Seite 16 - That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished:
Seite 206 - Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Seite 426 - I knew their worth ; then left me, too late, to count their value by their loss. Another and another spoiler came, and all my gain was poverty and reproach. My soul disdained, and yet disdains, dependence and contempt. Riches, no matter by what means obtained, I saw, secured the worst of men from both : I found it therefore necessary to be rich ; and, to that end, I summoned all my arts. You call 'em wicked : be it so ! They were such as my conversation with your sex had furnished me withal.
Seite 4 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Seite 290 - And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted...