Studies in British History and PoliticsSmith, Elder and Company, 1913 - 219 pages |
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Page 54 - The rights of men in governments are their advantages ; and these are often in balances between differences of good; in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil.
Page 10 - I for my part do confess, that in revolving the Scriptures, I could never find any such thing: but that God had left the like liberty to the church government, as he had done to the civil government ; to be varied according to time, and place, and accidents, which nevertheless his high and divine providence doth order and dispose.
Page 170 - États modérés; elle n'y eSt que lorsqu'on n'abuse pas du pouvoir; mais c'eSt une expérience éternelle que tout homme qui a du pouvoir eSt porté à en abuser; il va jusqu'à ce qu'il trouve des limites. Qui le diroit ! la vertu même a besoin de limites. Pour qu'on ne puisse abuser du pouvoir, il faut que, par la disposition des choses, le pouvoir arrête le pouvoir.
Page 121 - I think I can trace all the calamities of this country to the single source of our not having had steadily before our eyes a general, comprehensive, well-connected, and wellproportioned view of the whole of our dominions, and a just sense of their true bearings and relations.
Page 15 - Yet these are the men cried out against for schismatics and sectaries, as if, while the temple of the Lord was building, some cutting, some squaring the marble, others hewing the cedars, there should be a sort of irrational men, who could not consider there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber, ere the house of God can be built. And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world :...
Page 14 - Men whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent Would have been held in high esteem with Paul...
Page 100 - As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths; and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light, because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live, what is...
Page 169 - Thus to regulate candidates and electors, and new model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots, and poison the very fountain of public security?
Page xvi - To say that in nothing they may be followed which are of the church of Rome were violent and extreme. Some things they do in that they are men, in that they are wise men and Christian men in some things, some things in that they are men misled and blinded with error.
Page 11 - And, therefore, it is good we return unto the ancient bounds of unity in the church of God; which was, one faith, one baptism; and not one hierarchy, one discipline...