Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Tom 4

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Baudry's European Library, 1839
 

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Strona 215 - And thus, that which begins and actually constitutes any political society is nothing but the consent of any number of freemen capable of a majority, to unite and incorporate into such a society. And this is that, and that only, which did or could give beginning to any lawful government in the world.
Strona 217 - This power to act according to discretion for the public good, without the prescription of the law and sometimes even against it...
Strona 197 - I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.
Strona 222 - Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion than the rest of the world, or than our neighbours, whereby we are enabled to procure to ourselves a greater plenty of the conveniences of life...
Strona 163 - The gravitation of matter towards matter by ways inconceivable to me, is not only a demonstration that God can, if he pleases, put into bodies, powers and ways of operation, above what can be derived from our idea of body...
Strona 307 - No man is capable of translating poetry who, besides a genius to that art, is not a master both of his author's language and of his own.
Strona 245 - ... one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
Strona 161 - I doubt not but it will be easily granted, that the knowledge we have of mathematical truths, is not only certain, but real knowledge; and not the bare empty vision of vain insignificant chimeras of the brain: and yet, if we will consider, we shall find that it is only of our own ideas. The mathematician considers the truth and properties belonging to a rectangle, or circle, only as they are in idea in his own mind. For it is possible he never found either of them existing mathematically, ie precisely...
Strona 216 - ... shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority, and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government. For what property have I in that which another may by right take when he pleases to himself?

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