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... principle of popular election to Optics and parochial cures . us , in the prefent condition of the world , would be the last corruption of the church ; the utter ruin of the clerical character ; the most danger- ous fhock that the ftate ...
... principle of popular election to Optics and parochial cures . us , in the prefent condition of the world , would be the last corruption of the church ; the utter ruin of the clerical character ; the most danger- ous fhock that the ftate ...
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... principle upon which they all agree , and the great object to which they are all directed . They begin more and more plainly to dif- cern , that we have all a common caufe , as against a common enemy . They will not be fo mifled by the ...
... principle upon which they all agree , and the great object to which they are all directed . They begin more and more plainly to dif- cern , that we have all a common caufe , as against a common enemy . They will not be fo mifled by the ...
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... principle , it applies as much to one country as to another . William the Conqueror , as a conqueror , held this power of war and peace in himfelf , and his defcen- dants have ever fince claimed it under him as a right . Although Mr ...
... principle , it applies as much to one country as to another . William the Conqueror , as a conqueror , held this power of war and peace in himfelf , and his defcen- dants have ever fince claimed it under him as a right . Although Mr ...
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... principles ought to be fubject to be tried for high treafon , and to incur the penalty of death . Having faid fo much of ... principle that what they protested againft was imputed to them ? Mr. Fox ftated , that fuch perfecution and ...
... principles ought to be fubject to be tried for high treafon , and to incur the penalty of death . Having faid fo much of ... principle that what they protested againft was imputed to them ? Mr. Fox ftated , that fuch perfecution and ...
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+ well be talked of , as every thing muft have its general principle ; the doc- trines afferted by his honourable a friend in his fpeech , though he could not fubfcribe to all of them , did the highest honour to the head and heart of ...
+ well be talked of , as every thing muft have its general principle ; the doc- trines afferted by his honourable a friend in his fpeech , though he could not fubfcribe to all of them , did the highest honour to the head and heart of ...
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Popular passages
Page 143 - Political arrangement, as it is a work for social ends, is to be only wrought by social means. There mind must conspire with mind. Time is required to produce that union of minds which alone can produce all the good we aim at. Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Page 23 - Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-descript.
Page 79 - They can see, without pain or grudging, an archbishop precede a duke. They can see a bishop of Durham, or a bishop of Winchester, in possession of ten thousand pounds a year; and cannot conceive why it is in worse hands than estates to the like amount in the hands of this earl, or that squire...
Page 319 - Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every man, has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights ; and these limits are determinable only by the law.
Page 80 - Toleration, therefore, places itself, not between man and man, nor between church and church, nor between one denomination of religion and another, but between God and man; between the being who worships, and the being who is worshipped; and by the same act of assumed authority by which it tolerates man to pay his worship, it presumptuously and blasphemously sets itself up to tolerate the Almighty to receive it.
Page 24 - It is a law against every law of nature, and nature herself calls for its destruction. Establish family justice and aristocracy falls. By the aristocratical law of primogenitureship, in a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never but one child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the cannibal for prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast.
Page 156 - Here we thought he was caught as in a trap, for he had scarce room to turn ; when a servant, who had a gun, standing directly over him, fired at his head, and the animal fell immediately, to all appearance dead. All those on foot, now jumped in with...
Page 119 - The members of the first, deemed the most sacred, had it for their province to study the principles of religion ; to perform its functions ; and to cultivate the sciences. They were the priests, the instructors, and philosophers of the nation.
Page 155 - I avoided without difficulty ; but I am happy to this day, in the reflection that I did not strike it.
Page 154 - ... side ; and while he engages the elephant's attention upon the horse, the footman behind gives him a drawn stroke just above the heel, or what in man is called the tendon of Achilles.