The works of ... Henry St. John, lord viscount Bolingbroke. With the life of lord Bolingbroke by dr. Goldsmith, now enlarged, المجلد 1 |
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... conduct of princes renders the observance of it practicable . But from the establishment of this maxim results the necessity of another , without which the exercise of the executive power would remain under no control . Though our kings ...
... conduct of princes renders the observance of it practicable . But from the establishment of this maxim results the necessity of another , without which the exercise of the executive power would remain under no control . Though our kings ...
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... conduct to it , and neither to invade , nor suffer it to be invaded by others , are so un- deniable , and so strong ; and since the means , which the minister's power gives him to preserve it in purity and vigour , or to corrupt and ...
... conduct to it , and neither to invade , nor suffer it to be invaded by others , are so un- deniable , and so strong ; and since the means , which the minister's power gives him to preserve it in purity and vigour , or to corrupt and ...
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... conduct , to divide such a people ? Shall he expect , for instance , that all his people should think like him and his council , about every occurrence , about every measure he takes , and every man he employs ? and since this is too ...
... conduct , to divide such a people ? Shall he expect , for instance , that all his people should think like him and his council , about every occurrence , about every measure he takes , and every man he employs ? and since this is too ...
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... conduct cannot suit his interest , however it may his passions , in any circumstance whatever . There are indeed circum- stances , wherein it may suit the interest of a mi- nister . Till the sword of civil war be drawn , a prince can ...
... conduct cannot suit his interest , however it may his passions , in any circumstance whatever . There are indeed circum- stances , wherein it may suit the interest of a mi- nister . Till the sword of civil war be drawn , a prince can ...
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... conduct ; to refute Caleb ; or , which is still more easy , and by some thought as useful , to keep up the cavil on one point , till a new one is started , that draws off the attention of the world . All this may be called fair war ...
... conduct ; to refute Caleb ; or , which is still more easy , and by some thought as useful , to keep up the cavil on one point , till a new one is started , that draws off the attention of the world . All this may be called fair war ...
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الصفحة 405 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
الصفحة 340 - ... them in parliament, purely because they are employed and trusted by the prince. Your lordship sees, not only how much a due reflection upon the experience of other ages and countries would have pointed out national corruption, as the natural and necessary consequence of investing the crown with the management of so great a revenue; but also the loss of liberty, as the natural and necessary consequence of national corruption.
الصفحة 7 - ... and honour, than a minister who should conduct the administration with great ability and success, and should at the same time procure and abet, or even connive at, such indirect violations of the rules of the constitution as tend to the destruction of it, or even at such evasions as tend to render it useless.
الصفحة 461 - And Philip the fourth was obliged, at last, to conclude a peace, on terms repugnant to his inclination, to that of his people, to the interest of Spain, and to that of all Europe, in the Pyrenean treaty.
الصفحة 157 - By constitution we mean, whenever we speak with propriety and exactness, that assemblage of laws, institutions, and customs, derived from certain fixed principles of reason, directed to certain fixed objects of public good, that compose the general system, according to which the community hath agreed to be governed.
الصفحة 38 - The power and majesty of the people, an original contract, the authority and independency of parliament, liberty, resistance, exclusion, abdication, deposition; these were ideas associated, at that time, to the idea of a w'hig, and supposed by every whig to be incommuaioable and inconsistent with the idea of a tory. Divine, hereditary, indefeasible right, lineal succession, passive obedience, prerogative, nonresistance, slavery, nay, and sometimes popery too...
الصفحة 428 - But there have been lawyers that were orators, philosophers, historians: there have been Bacons and Clarendons. There will be none such any more, till in some better age true ambition, or the love of fame, prevails over avarice; and till men find leisure and encouragement to prepare themselves for the exercise of this profession, by climbing up to the vantage ground...
الصفحة 315 - I approve therefore very much the devotion of a studious man at Christ-Church, who was overheard in his oratory entering into a detail with God, as devout...
الصفحة 440 - Sixtus the fourth was, if I mistake not, a great collector of books at least.
الصفحة 411 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, Credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, Orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus Describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent; Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento : Hae tibi erunt artes, pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.