The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character, Tom 2Carey and Hart, 1841 |
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... to point out the series of misfortunes , by which we were divided formerly into parties , whose contests brought even the fundamental prin- VOL . II . - 2 ciples of our constitution into question , and whose excesses.
... to point out the series of misfortunes , by which we were divided formerly into parties , whose contests brought even the fundamental prin- VOL . II . - 2 ciples of our constitution into question , and whose excesses.
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... constitution into question , and whose excesses brought liberty to the very brink of ruin . They are designed to give true ideas of this constitution , and to revive in the minds of men the true spirit of it . They are designed to ...
... constitution into question , and whose excesses brought liberty to the very brink of ruin . They are designed to give true ideas of this constitution , and to revive in the minds of men the true spirit of it . They are designed to ...
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... constitution is the business of every Bri- ton . It is so more particularly , indeed , of persons raised , like you , to the highest posts in the government . You lie under par- ticular obligations of this kind , besides the general ...
... constitution is the business of every Bri- ton . It is so more particularly , indeed , of persons raised , like you , to the highest posts in the government . You lie under par- ticular obligations of this kind , besides the general ...
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... constitution as tend to the destruction of it , or even at such evasions as tend to render it useless . A minister , who had the ill qualities of both these , and the good ones of neither ; who made his ad- ministration hateful in some ...
... constitution as tend to the destruction of it , or even at such evasions as tend to render it useless . A minister , who had the ill qualities of both these , and the good ones of neither ; who made his ad- ministration hateful in some ...
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... constitution hath been improved , how far our liberties have been better secured by the revolution , and how little is want- ing to complete that glorious design , and to render the British constitution the most perfect system of a free ...
... constitution hath been improved , how far our liberties have been better secured by the revolution , and how little is want- ing to complete that glorious design , and to render the British constitution the most perfect system of a free ...
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Strona 222 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Strona 429 - He must be seen subdued, bound, chained, and deprived entirely of power to do hurt. In his place, concord will appear, brooding peace and prosperity on the happy land ; joy sitting in every face, content in every heart ; a people unoppressed, undisturbed, unalarmed ; busy to improve their private property and the public stock; fleets covering the ocean, bringing home wealth by the returns of industry, carrying assistance or terror abroad by the direction of wisdom, and asserting triumphantly the...
Strona 234 - But there have been lawyers that were orators, philosophers, historians: there have been Bacons and Clarendons. There will be none such any more, till in some better age true ambition, or the love of fame, prevails over avarice; and till men find leisure and encouragement to prepare themselves for the exercise of this profession, by climbing up to the vantage ground...
Strona 177 - The true and proper object of this application is a constant improvement in private and in public virtue. An application to any study, that tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and better citizens, is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness, to use an expression of Tillotson : and the knowledge we acquire by it is a creditable kind of ignorance, nothing more.
Strona 397 - ... of their fall. Under him, they will not only cease to do evil, but learn to do well ; for by rendering public virtue and real capacity the sole means of acquiring any degree of power or profit in the state, he will set the passions of their hearts on the side of liberty and good government. A Patriot King is the most powerful of all reformers ; for he is himself a sort of standing miracle, so rarely seen and so little understood, that the sure effects of his appearance will be admiration and...
Strona 363 - The destruction of the minister was pursued only as a preliminary, but of essential and indisputable necessity, to that end: but when his destruction seemed to approach, the object of his succession interposed to the sight of many, and the reformation of the government was no longer their point of view.
Strona 240 - Sixtus the fourth was, if I mistake not, a great collector of books at least.
Strona 188 - I say, foresaw how the multiplication of taxes, and the creation of funds, would increase yearly the power of the crown, and bring our liberties by a natural and necessary progression, into a more real, though less apparent danger, than they were in before the revolution; a due reflection on the experience of other ages and countries, would have pointed out national corruption as the natural and necessary consequence of investing the crown with the management of so vast a revenue; and also, the loss...
Strona 88 - By constitution we mean, whenever we speak with propriety and exactness, that assemblage of laws, institutions, and customs, derived from certain fixed principles of reason, directed to certain fixed objects of public good, that compose the general system, according to which the community hath agreed to be governed.
Strona 366 - Eloquence has charms to lead mankind, and gives a nobler superiority than power, that every dunce may use, or fraud, that every knave may employ. But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year.