The Philanthropist: Or Philosophical Essays on Politics, Government, Morals and Manners, Issues 1-43 |
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... themselves , and who wish to persuade others , that the majesty of science should never condescend to vifit the houfe of the poor man . They tell us , that learning has a natural tendency to make the mind difcontented with its fituation ...
... themselves , and who wish to persuade others , that the majesty of science should never condescend to vifit the houfe of the poor man . They tell us , that learning has a natural tendency to make the mind difcontented with its fituation ...
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... themselves , and so hostile to the real happiness , and interefts of fo many thousands of the human race ! Let therefore thefe unfeeling mifanthropes ceafe to impofe upon themselves , and upon others . Rather let them contem- plate ...
... themselves , and so hostile to the real happiness , and interefts of fo many thousands of the human race ! Let therefore thefe unfeeling mifanthropes ceafe to impofe upon themselves , and upon others . Rather let them contem- plate ...
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... themselves ? Can they turn one furrow of the foil , or do they know how to fcatter one feed upon the earth ? Can they of themselves procure either the provisions that are to feed them , or the raiment which is to clothe them ? What ...
... themselves ? Can they turn one furrow of the foil , or do they know how to fcatter one feed upon the earth ? Can they of themselves procure either the provisions that are to feed them , or the raiment which is to clothe them ? What ...
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... themselves with a tale or a romance , and they pity the unfriended child of want , perifhing for a morfel of bread , as they would pity the defponding and lovelorn herolof the piece , or the unfortunate virgin confined by necromancy in ...
... themselves with a tale or a romance , and they pity the unfriended child of want , perifhing for a morfel of bread , as they would pity the defponding and lovelorn herolof the piece , or the unfortunate virgin confined by necromancy in ...
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... themselves that their governors are tyrants . Such is not the depravity of the human intellect . A people are always grateful for the protection they receive at the hands of their king . They love that king , and reverence him with an ...
... themselves that their governors are tyrants . Such is not the depravity of the human intellect . A people are always grateful for the protection they receive at the hands of their king . They love that king , and reverence him with an ...
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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.