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... suffer metempsychosis rather than utter dissolution . Thus two opposite parties , however nearly they may approach one another , will be disposed to palliate the errors and to over - estimate the merits of their respective political ...
... suffer metempsychosis rather than utter dissolution . Thus two opposite parties , however nearly they may approach one another , will be disposed to palliate the errors and to over - estimate the merits of their respective political ...
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... suffer self - interest to check its enthusiasm for its favourite pur- suit , he quite forgot that Burke was his promised patron . Nor could Burke pacify him till he had told him that he was himself the author . The enthusiastic son of ...
... suffer self - interest to check its enthusiasm for its favourite pur- suit , he quite forgot that Burke was his promised patron . Nor could Burke pacify him till he had told him that he was himself the author . The enthusiastic son of ...
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... suffer me to censure any part of his conduct . I am afraid to flatter him ; I am sure I am not disposed to blame him . Let those , who have betrayed him by their adulation , insult him with their malevolence . But what I do not presume ...
... suffer me to censure any part of his conduct . I am afraid to flatter him ; I am sure I am not disposed to blame him . Let those , who have betrayed him by their adulation , insult him with their malevolence . But what I do not presume ...
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... suffer by comparison with any part of the " Reflections . " But it has far higher merits than those of style . It is full of just and accurate views of the genius of the British constitution ; and exposes , with amazing power and ...
... suffer by comparison with any part of the " Reflections . " But it has far higher merits than those of style . It is full of just and accurate views of the genius of the British constitution ; and exposes , with amazing power and ...
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... suffer ourselves to imagine , that their senses present to different men different images of things , this scepti- cal proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and frivolous , even that sceptical reasoning ...
... suffer ourselves to imagine , that their senses present to different men different images of things , this scepti- cal proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and frivolous , even that sceptical reasoning ...
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Page 186 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page liv - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others ; and, we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Page lxvi - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Page 180 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 204 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire, and have made the most extensive and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Page 332 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Page 188 - Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire; and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies, the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities. Nature has said it. The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and...
Page liii - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Page liii - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Page 332 - When at length Hyder Ali found, that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty, and no signature, could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind.