The Moderate Monarchy, Or Principles of the British Constitution, Described in a Narrative of the Life and Maxims of Alfred the Great and His Counsellors. From the German of Albert V. HallerLongman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1849 - 344 Seiten |
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... wealth , and found a fierce pleasure in destruc- tion and in the murder of the vanquished . They owned no other virtue than the courage of the warrior ; the modesty of the peaceful clergy seemed to them a base neglect of the sole duty ...
... wealth , and found a fierce pleasure in destruc- tion and in the murder of the vanquished . They owned no other virtue than the courage of the warrior ; the modesty of the peaceful clergy seemed to them a base neglect of the sole duty ...
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... wealth by the hands of the conquering rob- bers , and only preserved their sword , without losing the esteem due to their origin . " The heart of the damsel felt relieved , but she was too virtuous to give herself up to hopes which ...
... wealth by the hands of the conquering rob- bers , and only preserved their sword , without losing the esteem due to their origin . " The heart of the damsel felt relieved , but she was too virtuous to give herself up to hopes which ...
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... wealth of millions ; and how general poverty , followed by starvation , pressed forward to the destruction of the people . Alfred never attacked ; the wars which he under- took were only for the purpose of repulsing unjust aggressions ...
... wealth of millions ; and how general poverty , followed by starvation , pressed forward to the destruction of the people . Alfred never attacked ; the wars which he under- took were only for the purpose of repulsing unjust aggressions ...
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... reins of government , to seek in a convent the tranquillity of his soul . Alfred remained a laborious prince , constantly occupied with the welfare of his people . He shared both his wealth and his time with religion 70 THE FOURTH BOOK .
... reins of government , to seek in a convent the tranquillity of his soul . Alfred remained a laborious prince , constantly occupied with the welfare of his people . He shared both his wealth and his time with religion 70 THE FOURTH BOOK .
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Albrecht von Baron HALLER. He shared both his wealth and his time with religion . He made two equal divisions of his revenues , the one being intended for acts of bene- volence , and subdivided between the poor , the convents , and the ...
Albrecht von Baron HALLER. He shared both his wealth and his time with religion . He made two equal divisions of his revenues , the one being intended for acts of bene- volence , and subdivided between the poor , the convents , and the ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 279 - A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Seite 280 - Have they 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?
Seite 311 - A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection...
Seite 286 - ... Though the legislative, whether placed in one or more, whether it be always in being, or only by intervals, though it be the supreme power in every commonwealth; yet first, it is not, nor can possibly be absolutely arbitrary over the lives and fortunes of the people: for it being but the joint power of every member of the society given up to that person, or assembly, which is legislator; it can be no more than those persons had in a state of nature before they entered into society, and gave up...
Seite 341 - Children, I confess, are not born in this full state of equality, though they are born to it. Their parents have a sort of rule and jurisdiction over them when they come into the world, and for some time after, but it is but a temporary one.
Seite 287 - Their power, in the utmost bounds of it, is limited to' the public good of the society. It is a power, that hath no other end but preservation, and therefore can never * have a right to destroy, enslave, or designedly to impoverish the subjects.
Seite 287 - Secondly, the legislative or supreme authority cannot assume to itself a power to rule by extemporary arbitrary decrees, but is bound to dispense justice and decide the rights of the subject by promulgated standing laws, and known authorised judges.
Seite 341 - Thus, the grass my horse has bit, the turfs my servant has cut, and the ore I have digged in any place, where I have a right to them in common with others, become my property without the assignation or consent of anybody. 'The labour that was mine, removing them out of that common state they were in, hath fixed my property in them.
Seite 292 - When a king has dethroned himself, and put himself in a state of war with his people, what shall hinder them from prosecuting him who is no king, as they would any other man, who has put himself into a state of war with them, Barclay, and those of his opinion, would do well to tell us.