The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Tom 2Carey and Hart, 1841 |
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... facts ; some notoriously false ; some , which it is impossible should be true ; others , which it is impossible this writer should know to be true , if they were so ; and others again , not only destitute of proof , but even of ...
... facts ; some notoriously false ; some , which it is impossible should be true ; others , which it is impossible this writer should know to be true , if they were so ; and others again , not only destitute of proof , but even of ...
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... facts would , in a few years more , break them for us , destroy all our notions of party , and substitute new ones in their room . The power and majesty of the people , an original contract , the authority and independency of parliament ...
... facts would , in a few years more , break them for us , destroy all our notions of party , and substitute new ones in their room . The power and majesty of the people , an original contract , the authority and independency of parliament ...
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... fact , the proceedings of that parliament were agree- able to the representation I have given of them . But now , if some severe censor should appear , and insist that the dame was chaste , only because she was not enough tempted ; that ...
... fact , the proceedings of that parliament were agree- able to the representation I have given of them . But now , if some severe censor should appear , and insist that the dame was chaste , only because she was not enough tempted ; that ...
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... fact on cotemporary authority , on the autho- rity even of some who were themselves engaged in that cause , from the beginning to the end of our civil wars . A more recent tradition assures us , that when the same opinions revived at ...
... fact on cotemporary authority , on the autho- rity even of some who were themselves engaged in that cause , from the beginning to the end of our civil wars . A more recent tradition assures us , that when the same opinions revived at ...
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... fact , which the bishop might know , and we may therefore take on his word , as extra- ordinary as it seems . I would only observe that king William , then prince of Orange , could have no reason for consenting that his wife's ...
... fact , which the bishop might know , and we may therefore take on his word , as extra- ordinary as it seems . I would only observe that king William , then prince of Orange , could have no reason for consenting that his wife's ...
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Strona 145 - they might be associated to him. He found himself unequal to the task of governing alone, and he expostulated with God upon it. " I am not able to bear all this people alone. Have I conceived all this people? Have I begotten them? If thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of
Strona 90 - But that which these examples prove very plainly is, that however men might submit voluntarily in the primitive simplicity of early ages, or be subjected by conquest to a government without a constitution, yet they were never long in discovering that "to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's
Strona 150 - other end but preservation, and therefore can never have a right to destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects; for the obligations of the law of nature cease not in society,"* &c. If you therefore put so extravagant a case as to suppose the two houses of parliament concurring to make at once a formal cession of their own rights and privileges, and of
Strona 252 - in any other case: and Philip the Fourth was obliged at last to conclude a peace, on terms repugnant to his inclination, to that of his people, to the interest of Spain, and to that of all Europe, in the Pyrenean treaty.
Strona 177 - opinion, the whole benefit which the generality of men, even of the most learned, reap from the study of history: and yet the study of history seems to me, of all other, the most proper to train us up to private and public virtue.
Strona 391 - composed of different parts and powers, but all duly proportioned to one another, and conspiring by their harmony to the perfection of the whole. He will make one, and but one, distinction between his rights, and those of his people: he will look on his to be a
Strona 353 - their industry in copying signs, and collecting mottos and epitaphs. They loiter, or they trifle away their whole time: and their presence or their absence would be equally unperceived, if caprice or accident did not raise them often to stations, wherein their stupidity, their vices, or their follies, make them a
Strona 178 - the frail temper of our minds, that abstract or general propositions, though ever so true, appear obscure or doubtful to us very often, till they are explained by examples; and that the wisest lessons in favor of virtue go but a little way to convince the judgment, and determine the will, unless they are enforced by the same means; and
Strona 48 - principles of common interest. It cannot be united and maintained on the particular prejudices, any more than it can, or ought to be, directed to the particular interests of any set of men whatsoever. A party, thus constituted, is improperly called party. It is the nation, speaking and acting in the discourse
Strona 101 - obstinacy of the prince, and the "people must appeal to heaven in this, as in all other cases, where they have no judge on earth."* Thus if a parliament should persist in abetting mal-administration, or any way give up those liberties which they were intrusted to maintain, no doubt can be made but that the people would be in the same case; since their