| 1829 - 566 pągines
...mere habit, has little importance attached to it in such reforms, or in the opposition shown them. Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good...taxing-machine ;' to the contented, a ' machine for securing pro' perty.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish constable.... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 pągines
...in such reforms, or in the opposition shown them. Men are to be guided only by their selfinleresls. Good government is a good balancing of these, and,...those of a father, but of an active parish constable. Thus it is by the mere condition of the machine; by preserving it untouched, or else by-reconstructing... | |
| 1835 - 916 pągines
...mere habit, has little importance attached to it in such reforms, or in Ihe opposition shown them. Men 8 h dYc Gh D K q ޫA Y l > =p 7a 1 W DO virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine : to the discontented, a " taxingmachine;"... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 pągines
...discontented, a " laxingrr*:hine ;" to the contented, a " machine for securing properly." Its Jutland its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish constable. Thus il is by the mere condition of the machine; by preserving it untouched, or else by-reconstructing... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 468 pągines
...mere habit, has little importance attached to it in such reforms, or in the opposition shown them. Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good...is emphatically a machine : to the discontented, a ' taxing, machine ; ' to the contented, a ' machine for securing property.' Its duties and its faults... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1891 - 580 pągines
...consists mainly in moderation and kindly prudence.' J Or, in the strong language of Carlyle, ' Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good...is emphatically a machine; to the discontented "a taxing machine," to the contented " a machine for securing property." '§ The force of numbers, disguised... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 pągines
...mere habit, has little importance attached to it in such reforms, or in the opposition shown them. Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good...is emphatically a machine : to the discontented, a ' taxing- machine;' to the contented, a 'machine for securing property.' Its duties and its faults... | |
| 1852 - 590 pągines
...mere habit, has little importance attached to it in such reforms, or in the opposition shown them. Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good...is emphatically a machine : to the discontented, a "taxing machine; "to the contented, a " machine for securing property." Its duties and its faults are... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1855 - 572 pągines
...mere habit, has little importance attached to it in such reforms, or in the opposition shown them. Men are to be guided only by their s>elf-interests. Good...a good balancing of these ; and, except a keen eye amd appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pągines
...mere habit, has little importance attached to it in such reforms, or in the opposition shown them. Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good...is emphatically a machine : to the discontented, a "taxing machine;" to the contented, a "machine for securing property." Its duties and its faults are... | |
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