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... Give me leave to present to you , in one short view , the general design of these little essays . They are designed then to expose the artifice , and to point out the series of misfortunes , by which we were divided formerly into ...
... Give me leave to present to you , in one short view , the general design of these little essays . They are designed then to expose the artifice , and to point out the series of misfortunes , by which we were divided formerly into ...
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... give any other answer to so shameless , and so senseless an objec- tion . No ; they are designs in favour of the constitution ; designs , to secure , to fortify , to per- petuate that excellent system of government . I court no other ...
... give any other answer to so shameless , and so senseless an objec- tion . No ; they are designs in favour of the constitution ; designs , to secure , to fortify , to per- petuate that excellent system of government . I court no other ...
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... gives him to preserve it in purity and vigour , or to corrupt and weaken it , are so many ; nothing could be more ... give me leave to descend into some , that are a little more particular , and that regard the man , as well as the ...
... gives him to preserve it in purity and vigour , or to corrupt and weaken it , are so many ; nothing could be more ... give me leave to descend into some , that are a little more particular , and that regard the man , as well as the ...
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... gives them . Such governors must divide and incense parties one against another , that they may be always able to bribe the pas- sions of one side , and so usurp on both . But the He prince who pursues this method risks the power he ...
... gives them . Such governors must divide and incense parties one against another , that they may be always able to bribe the pas- sions of one side , and so usurp on both . But the He prince who pursues this method risks the power he ...
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... gives you no hold on him . He hath neither avarice to make him desire riches , nor ambition to make him desire power , nor vanity to make him desire honours . You cannot oppress him ; because he is free from guilt , and from every ...
... gives you no hold on him . He hath neither avarice to make him desire riches , nor ambition to make him desire power , nor vanity to make him desire honours . You cannot oppress him ; because he is free from guilt , and from every ...
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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.