Maxims and Opinions: Moral, Political, and Economical, with Characters from the Works ofC. Whittingham, 1804 - Political science |
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... rule ; because this necessity itself is a part too of that moral and phy- sical disposition of things to which man must be obe- dient by consent or force ; but if that which is only submission to necessity should be made the object of ...
... rule ; because this necessity itself is a part too of that moral and phy- sical disposition of things to which man must be obe- dient by consent or force ; but if that which is only submission to necessity should be made the object of ...
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... rule and direction in the expenditure of their estates but their own will and appetite ? Nor are these estates held altogether in the character or with the evils supposed inherent in mortmain . They pass from hand to hand with a more ...
... rule and direction in the expenditure of their estates but their own will and appetite ? Nor are these estates held altogether in the character or with the evils supposed inherent in mortmain . They pass from hand to hand with a more ...
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... rule . **** Lawyers , I know , cannot make the distinction , for which I contend ; because they have their strict rule to go by . But legislators ought to do what lawyers cannot ; for they have no other rules to bind them , but the ...
... rule . **** Lawyers , I know , cannot make the distinction , for which I contend ; because they have their strict rule to go by . But legislators ought to do what lawyers cannot ; for they have no other rules to bind them , but the ...
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... rules and definitions of prudence can rarely be exact ; never universal . **** The decisions of prudence ( contrary to the system of the insane reasoners ) differ from those of judicature : and that almost all the former are determined ...
... rules and definitions of prudence can rarely be exact ; never universal . **** The decisions of prudence ( contrary to the system of the insane reasoners ) differ from those of judicature : and that almost all the former are determined ...
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... rule of profound sense , and ought never to depart from the mind of an honest reformer . I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption , to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche , upon ...
... rule of profound sense , and ought never to depart from the mind of an honest reformer . I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption , to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche , upon ...
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Page 146 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Page 79 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Page 29 - Each contract of each particular State is but a clause in the great " primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible World, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable, oath which holds all physical and all moral natures, ^each in their appointed place.
Page 183 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Page 151 - But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments...
Page 146 - Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Page 132 - A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Page 128 - It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our constitution ; or even the whole of it together. I could easily, if I had not altogether tired you, give you very striking and convincing instances of it.
Page 55 - My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force ; and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource : for, conciliation failing, force remains ; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.
Page 145 - You will observe, that from magna charta to the declaration of right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.