Essays, Moral and Political, Volume 2John Murray, 1832 - Great Britain |
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... body po- litic can be restored to health , must be slow in their operation . The condition of the populace , physical , moral , and intellectual , must be improved , or a Jacquerie , a Bellum Servile , sooner or later : will be the ...
... body po- litic can be restored to health , must be slow in their operation . The condition of the populace , physical , moral , and intellectual , must be improved , or a Jacquerie , a Bellum Servile , sooner or later : will be the ...
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... body of the people are attached to the institutions of their country . A moral and reli- gious education will induce habits of industry ; the people will know their duty , and find their interest and their happiness in following it ...
... body of the people are attached to the institutions of their country . A moral and reli- gious education will induce habits of industry ; the people will know their duty , and find their interest and their happiness in following it ...
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... body politic for this cause , would be as absurd as to disregard the first symptoms of that frightful malady by which Sylla was consumed . The error of these persons proceeds from inattention to the great and momen- tous change which ...
... body politic for this cause , would be as absurd as to disregard the first symptoms of that frightful malady by which Sylla was consumed . The error of these persons proceeds from inattention to the great and momen- tous change which ...
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... body politic did they close that abscess which the peccant humour had opened for itself . They should have afforded every pos- sible outlet . You will not live contentedly under our system ; go then where you may ' establish your own ...
... body politic did they close that abscess which the peccant humour had opened for itself . They should have afforded every pos- sible outlet . You will not live contentedly under our system ; go then where you may ' establish your own ...
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... body of Christians , who have ever been the most tolerant of the sectarians . • Like poor bewildered travellers , perceiving that we have lost our way , we are necessitated , • though with tired and irksome steps , thus to walk the same ...
... body of Christians , who have ever been the most tolerant of the sectarians . • Like poor bewildered travellers , perceiving that we have lost our way , we are necessitated , • though with tired and irksome steps , thus to walk the same ...
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better bishops British called calumnies Catholic Emancipation CATHOLIC QUESTION cause character Church Church of England circumstances clergy condition consequences danger declared degree desire duty effect EMIGRATION England English established evil existing faith favour feelings France French revolution heart honour House human increase Ireland Irish Jacobine justice king kingdom labour land laws less liberty look Lord Byron manufactures means measure ment mind miserable moral nation nature never oath object occasion opinions parents parish parliament party pauperism persecution persons political poor Poor Laws Pope population present priests principles produced prosperity Protestant racter reason reform religion religious ROBERT SOUTHEY Roman Catholic Romish Satanic School says Sir Robert Inglis society Socinianism Southey sovereign spirit suffered suppose thing thought tion tithes titular bishops toleration wages Wat Tyler whole William Smith words writer
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Page 174 - The school which they have set up may properly be called the Satanic School, for though their productions breathe the spirit of Belial in their lascivious parts, and the spirit of Moloch in those loathsome images of atrocities and horrors which they delight to represent, they are more especially characterised by a Satanic spirit of pride and audacious impiety, which still betrays the wretched feeling of hopelessness wherewith it is allied.
Page 94 - The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. 1 3 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
Page 58 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 12 - ... with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength, and therefore they loved him as truly and as fervently as he loved England.
Page 176 - The government may exult over the repression of petty tumults ; these are but the receding waves repulsed and broken for a moment on the shore, while the great tide is still rolling on and gaining ground with every breaker.
Page 365 - MY Lord Clarendon has observed, that few men have done more harm than those who have been thought to be able to do least ; and there cannot be a greater error, than to believe a man, whom we see qualified with too mean parts to do good, to be therefore incapable of doing hurt. There is a supply of malice, of pride, of industry, and even of folly, in the weakest, when he sets his heart upon it, that makes a strange progress in mischief.
Page 181 - But I am accustomed to such things ; and, so far from irritating me are the enemies who use such weapons, that when I hear of their attacks, it is some satisfaction to think they have thus employed the malignity which must have been employed somewhere, and could not have been directed against any person whom It could possibly molest or injure less. The viper, however venomous in purpose, is harmless in effect while it is biting at the file. It is seldom, mdeed, that I waste a word or a thought upon...
Page 353 - I do solemnly swear, that I never will exercise any privilege to which I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion, or Protestant Government, in the United Kingdom...
Page 31 - Johns of Leyden, the instruments of his vengeance, that the power of the Almighty might be more evident by the weakness of the means which he chooses to demonstrate it. He did not assemble the serpents and the monsters of Afric, to correct the pride of the Egyptians ; but called for his armies of locusts out of ^Ethiopia, and formed new ones of vermin out of the very dust...
Page 384 - The counsel which they shall intrust me withal, by themselves, their messengers or letters, I will not knowingly reveal to any, to their prejudice. I will help them to defend and keep the Roman Papacy and the Royalties of St. Peter, saving my order, against all men.