Europe, Or, A General Survey of the Present Situation of the Principal Powers: With Conjectures on Their Future ProspectsO. Everett, 1822 - 451 strán (strany) |
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... existing forms of administration had been established at a period when the land constituted the only property ; and when the human cultivators of the soil were intellectually nearly on a level with their brutal fellow labourers . That ...
... existing forms of administration had been established at a period when the land constituted the only property ; and when the human cultivators of the soil were intellectually nearly on a level with their brutal fellow labourers . That ...
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... existing political forms , and to be gov- erned by rulers , who shall also be responsible to man . But they also know that if the sovereigns are responsible to God for the discharge of their duty , the people are also responsible to God ...
... existing political forms , and to be gov- erned by rulers , who shall also be responsible to man . But they also know that if the sovereigns are responsible to God for the discharge of their duty , the people are also responsible to God ...
Strana 16
... existing abuse ? Is there no appeal for millions of suffering men against the arbitrary and capricious or interested decision of a single person , his minister or mistress ? These are the doctrines of Eastern despotism and it is ...
... existing abuse ? Is there no appeal for millions of suffering men against the arbitrary and capricious or interested decision of a single person , his minister or mistress ? These are the doctrines of Eastern despotism and it is ...
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... existing forms of government by their own voluntary act to the altered state of society , still as immediate interest generally predominates in determining human actions , such sacrifices could not have been anticipated as probable ...
... existing forms of government by their own voluntary act to the altered state of society , still as immediate interest generally predominates in determining human actions , such sacrifices could not have been anticipated as probable ...
Strana 19
... existing insti- tutions could not stand . Rousseau applies the remark to the thrones of Europe in general ; and every day's experience bears witness to his sagaci- ty . But anticipations of this description attract no attention in the ...
... existing insti- tutions could not stand . Rousseau applies the remark to the thrones of Europe in general ; and every day's experience bears witness to his sagaci- ty . But anticipations of this description attract no attention in the ...
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Strana 409 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects without molestation or hindrance; and all women and children scholars of every faculty, cultivators of the earth, artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen, unarmed and inhabiting unfortified towns, villages, or places, and in general all others...
Strana 409 - ... in their persons, nor shall their houses or goods be burnt or otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wasted by the armed force of the enemy...
Strana 409 - ... all women and children, scholars of every faculty, cultivators of the earth, artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen unarmed and inhabiting unfortified towns, villages, or places, and in general all others whose occupations are for the common subsistence and benefit of mankind, shall be allowed to continue their respective employments, and shall not' be molested in their persons, nor shall their houses...
Strana 298 - Rousseau, which is not without a certain analogy in its forms to that of Burke. The principal of the Jesuits' college one day inquired of him by what art he had been able to write so well ;
Strana 302 - As regards merely the use of unpremeditated language, it is far from being a difficult attainment. A writer, whose opportunities of observation give weight to his opinion, says, in speaking of the style of the younger Pitt, " This profuse and interminable flow of words is not in itself either a rare or remarkable endowment. It is wholly a thing of habit, and is exercised by every village lawyer with various degrees of power and grace.