A Manual of the Principles of Government: As Set Forth by the Authorities of Ancient and Modern TimesKegan Paul, 1882 - 274 pages |
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Page 206 - Love thou thy land, with love far-brought From out the storied Past, and used Within the Present, but transfused Thro' future time by power of thought." ******* " Make knowledge circle with the winds ; But let her herald, Reverence, fly Before her to whatever sky Bear seed of men and growth of minds.
Page 135 - body, with a power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority. " The great and chief end of men's uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves under government is the preservation of their property. " The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent.
Page 135 - great and chief end of men's uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves under government is the preservation of their property. " The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent.
Page 135 - it is fit every one who enjoys his share of the protection should pay out of his estate his proportion for the maintenance of it. But still it must be with his own consent; ie, the consent of the majority, giving it either by themselves or
Page 212 - an absolute necessity that the whole fabric should be at once pulled down, and the area cleared for the erection of a theoretic, experimental edifice in its place. All France was of a different opinion in the beginning of the year 1789. The instructions to the representatives to the States-General, from every district in
Page 166 - 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 205 - Grey. That which tends to increase the security of the prerogatives of the crown, the authority of both houses of parliament, and the rights and liberties of the people, may well be accepted; the plan, which has other objects, and looks to a different form of government, ought
Page 167 - never heard of a monarchy directed by laws, controlled and balanced by the great hereditary wealth and hereditary dignity of a nation; and both again controlled by a judicious check from the reason and feeling of the people at large, acting by a suitable and permanent organ.
Page 166 - In removing it from a dangerous leaning towards one side there may be risk of oversetting it on the other. Every project of a material change in a government so complicated as ours, combined at the same time with external circumstances still more complicated, is a matter full of difficulties; in which a considerate man will not be too ready to decide,
Page 140 - all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and declared are the true, ancient, and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this kingdom.