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Frases i termes més freqüents
Abbé according againſt alſo antient appear Aſſembly authority better body Burke called caſe cauſe certainly circumſtances claim common conſidered conſtitution court crown danger duty Edition equally eſtabliſhed evil exiſt fact feeling firſt France freedom French Gentlemen give given held himſelf hiſtory hold Houſe human itſelf juſt juſtice King kingdom known land laſt leſs liberty manner matter means meaſures meeting ment mention mind miniſter monarchy moſt muſt natural neceſſary never opinion original Paris Parliament perhaps perſon political preſent prince principles purpoſe queſtion race reaſon reformation reign reſpect ſaid ſame ſay ſhall ſhould ſome ſort ſpeak ſpirit ſtate ſtill ſubject ſuch taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thought tion true uſe Vols whole wholly whoſe wiſdom wiſh
Passatges populars
Pàgina xii - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent Act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take, we remit some rights that we may enjoy others, and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Pàgina 371 - Then some part of the abdicated grievance is recalled from its exile in order to become a corrective of the correction. Then the abuse assumes all the credit and popularity of a reform. The very idea of purity...
Pàgina 157 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Pàgina 406 - In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its border.
Pàgina 64 - I flatter myself that I love a manly, moral, regulated liberty as well as any gentleman of that society, be he who he will ; and perhaps I have given as good proofs of my attachment to that cause, in the whole course of my public conduct.
Pàgina xii - It is besides a very great mistake to imagine 'that mankind follow up practically any speculative .principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation.
Pàgina 71 - This can only be done by a power out of themselves ; and not, in the exercise of its function, subject to that will and to those passions which it is its office to bridle and subdue. In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.
Pàgina 64 - Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered?
Pàgina 611 - An Account of the principal Lazarettos in Europe ; with various Papers relative to the Plague ! together with further observations on some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals, and additional Remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland.
Pàgina 79 - But if we make ourselves too little for the sphere of our duty, if, on the contrary, we do not stretch and expand our minds to the compass of their object, be well assured that everything about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length our concerns are shrunk to the dimensions of our minds.
Informació bibliogràfica
| Títol | An Address to the Lately Formed Society of the Friends of the People |
| Autor | John Wilde |
| Editor | Peter Hill, and T. Cadell, 1793 |
| Original de | Biblioteca Pública de Nova York |
| Digitalitzat el | 17 Oct. 2007 |
| Nre. de pàgines | 611 pàgines |
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