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... language and of the feelings of his British subjects , naturally entrusted the affairs of this kingdon to the statesmen and to the political party to whom he owed the crown . He was proud of being a king , but German politics and the ...
... language and of the feelings of his British subjects , naturally entrusted the affairs of this kingdon to the statesmen and to the political party to whom he owed the crown . He was proud of being a king , but German politics and the ...
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... language of Burke , " the King abandoned the old- fashioned fortress of prerogative , and made a lodgment in the stronghold of Parliament itself . " The result was disastrous both at home and abroad . The House of Commons , being ...
... language of Burke , " the King abandoned the old- fashioned fortress of prerogative , and made a lodgment in the stronghold of Parliament itself . " The result was disastrous both at home and abroad . The House of Commons , being ...
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... language from a man who had held a high magisterial position , and who was engaged in writing an elaborate work on Jurisprudence , seemed to justify the wildest demands of the revolutionary rabble . If such were the duties of the state ...
... language from a man who had held a high magisterial position , and who was engaged in writing an elaborate work on Jurisprudence , seemed to justify the wildest demands of the revolutionary rabble . If such were the duties of the state ...
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... language of English politicians in the early part of George III's reign . One example will suffice , and it shall be from a member of the House of Lords , and from a man whose legal knowledge raised him to the highest honours of his ...
... language of English politicians in the early part of George III's reign . One example will suffice , and it shall be from a member of the House of Lords , and from a man whose legal knowledge raised him to the highest honours of his ...
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... , and appealed to the inaliena- ble rights with which , they said , God had endowed the whole human race . As a war - cry , this language answered its purpose ; it rallied the colonists , and attracted the 42 MODERN DEMOCRACY .
... , and appealed to the inaliena- ble rights with which , they said , God had endowed the whole human race . As a war - cry , this language answered its purpose ; it rallied the colonists , and attracted the 42 MODERN DEMOCRACY .
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Page 124 - THE natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.
Page 47 - Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
Page 184 - If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy.
Page 47 - Men have a right to live by that rule; they have a right to justice, as between their fellows, whether their fellows are in politic function or in ordinary occupation. They have a right to the fruits of their industry, and to the means of making their industry fruitful.
Page 127 - The laws which, in many countries on the Continent, forbid marriage unless the parties can show that they have the means of supporting a family, do not exceed the legitimate powers of the state : and whether such laws be expedient or not (a question mainly dependent on local circumstances and feelings), they are not objectionable as violations of liberty.
Page 47 - They have a right to the fruits of their industry ; and to the means of making their industry fruitful. They have a right to the acquisitions of their parents ; to the nourishment and improvement of their offspring ; to instruction in life, and to consolation in death. Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Page 48 - But he has not a right to an equal dividend in the product of the joint stock ; and as to the share of power, authority, and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state, that I must deny to be amongst the direct original rights of man in civil society ; for I have in my contemplation the civil social man, and no other.
Page 27 - We may, therefore, give to this influence what name we please ; we may call it by the invidious appellations of corruption and dependence ; but some degree and some kind of it are inseparable from the very nature of the constitution, and necessary to the preservation of our mixed government.
Page 71 - Je suis fils de Brutus, et je porte en mon coeur La liberte gravee et les rois en horreur.
Page 60 - ... which, of all sciences, is the most important to the welfare of nations, — which, of all sciences, most tends to expand and invigorate the mind, — which draws nutriment and ornament from every part of philosophy and literature, and dispenses, in return, nutriment and ornament to all.