The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Том 1John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... Thus circumstanced , nothing can be more evident than their inevitable preponderance in the politi- cal scale . The preference of partial to general interests is , however , the greatest of all public evils 74 SELECT PASSAGES.
... Thus circumstanced , nothing can be more evident than their inevitable preponderance in the politi- cal scale . The preference of partial to general interests is , however , the greatest of all public evils 74 SELECT PASSAGES.
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... interest , which they ought to have resisted , though they could not disarm . Laws , it is said , cannot equalize men . No : but ought they , for that reason , to aggravate the inequality which they cannot cure ? Laws cannot in- spire ...
... interest , which they ought to have resisted , though they could not disarm . Laws , it is said , cannot equalize men . No : but ought they , for that reason , to aggravate the inequality which they cannot cure ? Laws cannot in- spire ...
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... interest of the go 、 vernment is so strong , and the cry of the people so feeble , that it were vain to expect it . If the effervescence of the popular mind is suffered to pass away without effect , it would be absurd to expect from ...
... interest of the go 、 vernment is so strong , and the cry of the people so feeble , that it were vain to expect it . If the effervescence of the popular mind is suffered to pass away without effect , it would be absurd to expect from ...
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... interest you have occasion , who is unhap . py in his family , put yourself in his way abroad , rather than wait on him at his own house . A statesman will not be likely to give you a favourable audience immedi- ately after meeting with ...
... interest you have occasion , who is unhap . py in his family , put yourself in his way abroad , rather than wait on him at his own house . A statesman will not be likely to give you a favourable audience immedi- ately after meeting with ...
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... interests possess at most only the second place in their minds . Self - love will ever be the ruling principle , and no ... interest of his constituent . How men of business can venture , as they do , to trust the great concerns some of ...
... interests possess at most only the second place in their minds . Self - love will ever be the ruling principle , and no ... interest of his constituent . How men of business can venture , as they do , to trust the great concerns some of ...
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Страница 110 - After the moon. If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.
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Страница 144 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
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Страница 209 - Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
Страница 222 - You see, Sir, that in this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess that we are generally men of untaught feelings : that, instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree...
Страница 204 - Whether any kind of gaming has even thus much to say for itself, I shall not determine ; but I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards...
Страница 222 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
Страница 184 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of . property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world} in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Страница 208 - ... a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. So people come faster out of...