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able according action adopted ancient arise aristocracy authority become body Book called causes Chapter character circumstances citizens civil classes commonwealth consequence constitution corruption course democracy democratic described destroyed duties election elements equality established existence form of government France give hands happiness History House human increase individual influence institutions interests justice kind king laws lead less liberty limited Lord John Russell majority matters means ment middle mind minority mixed monarchy moral nature object oligarchy opinion origin party persons political portion possessing practice present preserved principles qualities reason reference representation representatives republic respect result rule says senate sense social society sometimes theory things thought tion true tyranny United various virtue vote wealth whole wisdom
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Page 274 - OF old sat Freedom on the heights, The thunders breaking at her feet : Above her shook the starry lights : She heard the torrents meet. There in her place she did rejoice, Self-gather'd in her prophet-mind, But fragments of her mighty voice Came rolling on the wind. Then slept she down thro...
Page 223 - To be taught to despise danger in the pursuit of honour and duty; To be formed to the greatest degree of vigilance, foresight, and circumspection, in a state of things in which no fault is committed with impunity, and the slightest mistakes draw on the most ruinous consequences...
Page 112 - Nam cunctas nationes et urbes populus aut primores aut singuli regunt: delecta ex iis et consociata rei publicae forma laudari facilius quam evenire, vel si evenit, haud diuturna esse potest.
Page 172 - Let me say with plainness, I who am no longer in a public character, that if by a fair, by an indulgent, by a gentlemanly behaviour to our representatives, we do not give confidence to their minds, and a liberal scope to their understandings ; if we do not permit our members to act upon a very enlarged view of things ; we shall at length infallibly degrade our national representation into a confused and scuffling bustle of local agency.
Page 168 - It is the business of the speculative philosopher to mark the proper ends of government. It is the business of the politician, who is the philosopher in action, to find out proper means towards those ends. and to employ them with effect.
Page 172 - Then the monopoly of mental power will be added to the power of all other kinds it possesses. On the side of the people there will be nothing but impotence ; for ignorance is impotence ; narrowness of mind is impotence ; timidity is itself impotence, and makes all other qualities that go along with it impotent and useless.
Page 232 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Page 137 - For when any number of men have, by the consent of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community one body, with a power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority...
Page 193 - ... of the whole. We are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as if it were a law of our original nature. But such constructive whole, residing in a part only, is one of the most violent fictions of positive law that ever has been or can be made on the principles of artificial incorporation. Out of civil society Nature \ • \ \ V \ TO THE OLD WHIGS. 171 knows nothing of it...
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| Titre | A Manual of the Principles of Government: As Set Forth by the Authorities of Ancient and Modern Times |
| Auteur | Hugh Seymour Tremenheere |
| Éditeur | Kegan Paul, 1882 |
| Original provenant de | l'Université de Californie |
| Numérisé | 5 déc. 2007 |
| Longueur | 274 pages |
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