Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the Close of the American Revolution, Band 2John Owen, 1841 |
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... minds are always the first to countenance these principles of general confidence in rulers and govern- ment ; they are the very men , as I have once before observed , who should be the last ; for they are the very men who of all others ...
... minds are always the first to countenance these principles of general confidence in rulers and govern- ment ; they are the very men , as I have once before observed , who should be the last ; for they are the very men who of all others ...
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... mind the true image of the origi- nal ; but resembles rather one of those portraits which we so often see presented to us by the skill of a superior artist , where every grace and beauty , that can consist with the likeness , is ...
... mind the true image of the origi- nal ; but resembles rather one of those portraits which we so often see presented to us by the skill of a superior artist , where every grace and beauty , that can consist with the likeness , is ...
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... mind , and free- dom's holy flame " ; the memory , that still lingered with delight on the good old cause , as he termed it , for which he was to shed his blood ; the imagination , that even in the mo- ments of death , disdainful alike ...
... mind , and free- dom's holy flame " ; the memory , that still lingered with delight on the good old cause , as he termed it , for which he was to shed his blood ; the imagination , that even in the mo- ments of death , disdainful alike ...
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... mind , amid the common pursuits of life , those peaceful habits of thought which are so nutritive , so necessary to most of the virtues of the human character , all these , on occasions of civil war , are most materially disturbed , and ...
... mind , amid the common pursuits of life , those peaceful habits of thought which are so nutritive , so necessary to most of the virtues of the human character , all these , on occasions of civil war , are most materially disturbed , and ...
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... mind , they would have been thought ) of vengeance . Compare with the lives of these men the life of Sir William Temple , the man of cultivated mind ; the man of sense and humanity ; of civilized passions , and well directed aims ; the ...
... mind , they would have been thought ) of vengeance . Compare with the lives of these men the life of Sir William Temple , the man of cultivated mind ; the man of sense and humanity ; of civilized passions , and well directed aims ; the ...
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Seite 393 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Seite 394 - The more they multiply, the more friends you will have; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience. Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly.
Seite 484 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name...
Seite 463 - And let me conjure you in the name of our common country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character of America, to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man, who wishes, under any specious pretences, to overturn the liberties of our country, and who wickedly attempts to open the flood-gates of civil discord, and deluge our rising empire in blood.
Seite 411 - ... and children destitute of a bed to lie on, or bread to live on? Have you lost a parent or a child by their hands, and yourself the ruined and wretched survivor?
Seite 366 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Seite 186 - I shall therefore venture to acknowledge, that, not only as a man, but as a British subject, I pray for the flourishing commerce of Germany, Spain, Italy, and even France itself. I am at least certain that Great Britain, and all those nations, would flourish more, did their sovereigns and ministers adopt such enlarged and benevolent sentiments towards each other.
Seite 393 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Seite 52 - And excessive bail hath been required of persons committed in criminal cases, to elude the benefit of the laws made for the liberty of the subjects. 11. And excessive fines have been imposed ; and illegal and cruel punishments inflicted.
Seite 394 - Do not entertain so weak an imagination as that your registers and your bonds, your affidavits and your sufferances, your cockets and your clearances, are what form the great securities of your commerce.