The Philanthropist: Or Philosophical Essays on Politics, Government, Morals and Manners, Issues 1-43 |
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... happy would it have been for the felicity , as well as for the character , of human nature , if that merciful inclination had never been counteracted ! But experience obliges us to acknowledge the melancholy truth , that we ourselves ...
... happy would it have been for the felicity , as well as for the character , of human nature , if that merciful inclination had never been counteracted ! But experience obliges us to acknowledge the melancholy truth , that we ourselves ...
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... happy and enlightened , and in the poffeffion of every bleffing , and of every liberty , that are the birthright of human beings ! But to be thus happy and free , he bids them remember , that their minds must be illumined , and that the ...
... happy and enlightened , and in the poffeffion of every bleffing , and of every liberty , that are the birthright of human beings ! But to be thus happy and free , he bids them remember , that their minds must be illumined , and that the ...
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... happy ; he has no caufe to tremble , left his fubjects should convert their allegiance into conspiracy , and their duty into rebellion . The prince that can lay h's hand upon his heart , and lifting his eyes to heaven , fay , $ 2 Hic ...
... happy ; he has no caufe to tremble , left his fubjects should convert their allegiance into conspiracy , and their duty into rebellion . The prince that can lay h's hand upon his heart , and lifting his eyes to heaven , fay , $ 2 Hic ...
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... happy and free , will never thus madly be deluded into a belief that they are oppreffed . They will never perfuade themselves that their governors are tyrants . Such is not the depravity of the human intellect . A people are always ...
... happy and free , will never thus madly be deluded into a belief that they are oppreffed . They will never perfuade themselves that their governors are tyrants . Such is not the depravity of the human intellect . A people are always ...
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... happy , indeed he confiders it his duty , to rescue from unmerited obloquy whatever is the object of praise , and whatever challenges refpect , and com- . mendation . Much has been lately faid refpecting the rights of men , and much it ...
... happy , indeed he confiders it his duty , to rescue from unmerited obloquy whatever is the object of praise , and whatever challenges refpect , and com- . mendation . Much has been lately faid refpecting the rights of men , and much it ...
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Page 1 - That liberty, or freedom, consists in having an actual share in the appointment of those who frame the laws, and who are to be the guardians of every man's life, property, and peace; for the all of one man is as dear to him as the all of another; and the poor man has an equal right, but more need, to have representatives in the legislature than the rich one.
Page 5 - Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman...
Page 4 - We must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would have the same power.
Page 3 - Some have taken it as a means of deposing a person on whom they had conferred a tyrannical authority; others for the power of choosing a superior whom they are obliged to obey; others for the right of bearing arms, and of being thereby enabled to use violence; others, in fine, for the privilege of being governed by a native of their own country, or by their own laws.
Page 1 - Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it), Like to a tenement, or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Page 4 - To prevent this abuse, it is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power. A government may be so constituted, as no man shall be compelled to do things to which the law does not oblige him, nor forced to abstain from things which the law permits.
Page 4 - In short, whoever considers what it is, that constitutes the moving principle of what we call great affairs, and the invincible sensibility of man to the opinion of his fellow-creatures, will not hesitate to affirm that, if it were possible for the liberty of the press to exist in a despotic government, and, (what is not less difficult) for it to exist without changing the constitution, this liberty of the press...
Page 4 - Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found. It is there only when there is no abuse of power. But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. Is it not strange, though true, to say that virtue itself has need of limits? To prevent this abuse, it is necessary from the very nature of things...
Page 4 - ... from monarchies. In fine, as in democracies the people seem to act almost as they please, this sort of government has been deemed the most free, and the power of the people has been confounded with their liberty.
Page 5 - Marseilles; public tranquillity, that of the laws of China; navigation, that of the laws of Rhodes; natural liberty, that of the policy of the Savages; in general, the pleasures of the prince, that of despotic states; that of monarchies, the prince's and the kingdom's glory; the independence of individuals is the end aimed at by the laws of Poland, thence results the oppression of the whole.