The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Tom 2Carey and Hart, 1841 |
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... honor , than a minister , who should conduct the administration with great ability and success , and should at the same time procure and abet , or even connive at such indirect violations of the rules of the A DISSERTATION UPON PARTIES . 7.
... honor , than a minister , who should conduct the administration with great ability and success , and should at the same time procure and abet , or even connive at such indirect violations of the rules of the A DISSERTATION UPON PARTIES . 7.
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... success and triumphs of your administration , and to answer , or to attempt to answer , the almost innumerable objections that have been made , it matters not here whether justly or unjustly , to your con- duct at home , and your own ...
... success and triumphs of your administration , and to answer , or to attempt to answer , the almost innumerable objections that have been made , it matters not here whether justly or unjustly , to your con- duct at home , and your own ...
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... success . A bribe , in the hand of the most blundering coxcomb that ever disgraced honor and wealth and power , will prevail as much as in the hand of a man of sense , and go farther too , if it weigh more . An intriguing chamber - maid ...
... success . A bribe , in the hand of the most blundering coxcomb that ever disgraced honor and wealth and power , will prevail as much as in the hand of a man of sense , and go farther too , if it weigh more . An intriguing chamber - maid ...
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With a Life Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount). in practice with success , it may be discovered perhaps why , upon former occasions , as I shall hereafter show , the expedient of dividing prospered so much better than that of ...
With a Life Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount). in practice with success , it may be discovered perhaps why , upon former occasions , as I shall hereafter show , the expedient of dividing prospered so much better than that of ...
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... success , and gained by degrees great vogue in the nation , would be too much . Opinions very different from those which received the sanction of a legal establishment in church and state , had crept about obscurely , if not silently ...
... success , and gained by degrees great vogue in the nation , would be too much . Opinions very different from those which received the sanction of a legal establishment in church and state , had crept about obscurely , if not silently ...
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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