An Address to the Lately Formed Society of the Friends of the PeoplePeter Hill, and T. Cadell, London, 1793 - 611 pagina's |
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Pagina ix
... state ; free from dan- gerous theories ; not averfe to improvements ; linked together upon public principle , endeared and made ftrong in many inftances by private friendship ; and exifting for great public ends . I cannot perfuade ...
... state ; free from dan- gerous theories ; not averfe to improvements ; linked together upon public principle , endeared and made ftrong in many inftances by private friendship ; and exifting for great public ends . I cannot perfuade ...
Pagina xiii
... state to rob its citizens on pretence of liberty , is complete tyranny . Ten years ago , in the speech on his bill for " œconomical reformation " & c . his fentiments are the fame . ( Speech , p . 61. ) He is speaking of the great ...
... state to rob its citizens on pretence of liberty , is complete tyranny . Ten years ago , in the speech on his bill for " œconomical reformation " & c . his fentiments are the fame . ( Speech , p . 61. ) He is speaking of the great ...
Pagina xv
... state . Thefe great men were also religious . Mingling their fer- your for liberty , with veneration for its great caufe , they would indeed have rejoiced in our days , to have beheld a free conftitution in France , prefented as a peace ...
... state . Thefe great men were also religious . Mingling their fer- your for liberty , with veneration for its great caufe , they would indeed have rejoiced in our days , to have beheld a free conftitution in France , prefented as a peace ...
Pagina xvi
... state it now lies .. It was in this summer of 1791 , that the first meeting was held at Edinburgh , to celebrate the fourteenth of July . It was , in general , as I have always understood , a very refpectable meet- ing ; and I know ...
... state it now lies .. It was in this summer of 1791 , that the first meeting was held at Edinburgh , to celebrate the fourteenth of July . It was , in general , as I have always understood , a very refpectable meet- ing ; and I know ...
Pagina xxxi
... state ( if " fuch fhould be their fortune ) with a difcrimi- nating , manly , and provident mercy . " Such things are not mine . But it is mine ; having un- dertaken to speak the truth ; to fpeak it when ne- ceffary , and to justify it ...
... state ( if " fuch fhould be their fortune ) with a difcrimi- nating , manly , and provident mercy . " Such things are not mine . But it is mine ; having un- dertaken to speak the truth ; to fpeak it when ne- ceffary , and to justify it ...
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Pagina xii - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent Act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take, we remit some rights that we may enjoy others, and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Pagina 371 - Then some part of the abdicated grievance is recalled from its exile in order to become a corrective of the correction. Then the abuse assumes all the credit and popularity of a reform. The very idea of purity...
Pagina 157 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Pagina 406 - In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its border.
Pagina 64 - I flatter myself that I love a manly, moral, regulated liberty as well as any gentleman of that society, be he who he will ; and perhaps I have given as good proofs of my attachment to that cause, in the whole course of my public conduct.
Pagina xii - 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.
Pagina 71 - This can only be done by a power out of themselves ; and not, in the exercise of its function, subject to that will and to those passions which it is its office to bridle and subdue. In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.
Pagina 64 - Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered?
Pagina 611 - An Account of the principal Lazarettos in Europe ; with various Papers relative to the Plague ! together with further observations on some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals, and additional Remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland.
Pagina 79 - But if we make ourselves too little for the sphere of our duty, if, on the contrary, we do not stretch and expand our minds to the compass of their object, be well assured that everything about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length our concerns are shrunk to the dimensions of our minds.