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... circumstances , which they are utterly incapable of comprehending ; and , indeed , it is not every man in the highest classes who is altoge- ther equal to it . Nothing , in a general sense , appears to me less fair and justifiable ...
... circumstances , which they are utterly incapable of comprehending ; and , indeed , it is not every man in the highest classes who is altoge- ther equal to it . Nothing , in a general sense , appears to me less fair and justifiable ...
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... circumstances of men , that form what I should call a natural aristocracy , without which there is no nation . See NOBILITY . ATHEISM . We know , and it is our pride to know , that man is by his constitution a religious animal ; that ...
... circumstances of men , that form what I should call a natural aristocracy , without which there is no nation . See NOBILITY . ATHEISM . We know , and it is our pride to know , that man is by his constitution a religious animal ; that ...
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... circumstance of the gos- pel's being preached to the poor , was one of the great tests of its true mission . They think , therefore , that those do not believe it , who do not take care it should be preached to the poor . But as they ...
... circumstance of the gos- pel's being preached to the poor , was one of the great tests of its true mission . They think , therefore , that those do not believe it , who do not take care it should be preached to the poor . But as they ...
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... circumstances of civil life . They were sensible that the operation of this second nature on the first produced a new com- bination ; and thence arose many diversities amongst men , according to their birth , their education , their ...
... circumstances of civil life . They were sensible that the operation of this second nature on the first produced a new com- bination ; and thence arose many diversities amongst men , according to their birth , their education , their ...
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Seite 146 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Seite 79 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Seite 29 - Each contract of each particular State is but a clause in the great " primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible World, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable, oath which holds all physical and all moral natures, ^each in their appointed place.
Seite 183 - 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.
Seite 151 - But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments...
Seite 146 - Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Seite 132 - A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Seite 128 - It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our constitution ; or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not altogether tired you, give you very striking and convincing instances of it.
Seite 55 - My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force ; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.
Seite 145 - 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.