The Philanthropist: Or Philosophical Essays on Politics, Government, Morals and Manners, Issues 1-43 |
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... interests ; and Kings , Princes , and Bishops , were united under the famous Godfrey of Bouillon to recover Palestine . Hiftory has left on record eight examples , of the infatuation of mankind in , fol- lowing a Crufade , but thanks be ...
... interests ; and Kings , Princes , and Bishops , were united under the famous Godfrey of Bouillon to recover Palestine . Hiftory has left on record eight examples , of the infatuation of mankind in , fol- lowing a Crufade , but thanks be ...
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... interests ; while the harmonizing of the whole fhould produce the good of the State : fo that by reafon of this diverfity of individual interefts , and the oppofing fentiments and paffions thence na- turally excited , every matter ...
... interests ; while the harmonizing of the whole fhould produce the good of the State : fo that by reafon of this diverfity of individual interefts , and the oppofing fentiments and paffions thence na- turally excited , every matter ...
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... interests of mankind , a rifing empire formed upon the no- bleft principles of equity and reafon , and destined to prove a common refuge from European tyranny , he may fee nothing on the other , but the low , illiberal aims of ...
... interests of mankind , a rifing empire formed upon the no- bleft principles of equity and reafon , and destined to prove a common refuge from European tyranny , he may fee nothing on the other , but the low , illiberal aims of ...
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... interest is so interwoven with the peoples , that if they act for themselves ( which every one of them will do as near as he can ) they must act for the common intereft of England ; and if a few amongst them fhould find it their interest ...
... interest is so interwoven with the peoples , that if they act for themselves ( which every one of them will do as near as he can ) they must act for the common intereft of England ; and if a few amongst them fhould find it their interest ...
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... interest either of king or people but fome will fervilely comply with the court to keep their places ; others . will oppofe it as unreasonable to get them : and thofe gentlemen , whofe defigns are for their country's interest , will ...
... interest either of king or people but fome will fervilely comply with the court to keep their places ; others . will oppofe it as unreasonable to get them : and thofe gentlemen , whofe defigns are for their country's interest , will ...
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Page 5 - 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 3 - 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 8 - 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 1 - 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 5 - 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 2 - In governments, that is, in societies directed by laws, liberty can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
Page 2 - 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 2 - ... 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 2 - 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.
Page 3 - 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.