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... tion produces government . Again , knowledge and foresight are requisite for the safety of a community . There must , therefore , be the head to devise and to rule , and the hand to obey and execute . And hence the relation of master ...
... tion produces government . Again , knowledge and foresight are requisite for the safety of a community . There must , therefore , be the head to devise and to rule , and the hand to obey and execute . And hence the relation of master ...
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... tion produces government . Again , knowledge and foresight are requisite for the safety of a community . There must , therefore , be the head to devise and to rule , and the hand to obey and execute . And hence the relation of master ...
... tion produces government . Again , knowledge and foresight are requisite for the safety of a community . There must , therefore , be the head to devise and to rule , and the hand to obey and execute . And hence the relation of master ...
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... highest qualities for government are often found in * * So denominated by Aristotle in speaking of Lycurgus's Constitu- tion for Sparta . one man , or in a few . But the Book III . ] 13 DIFFERENT FORMS OF GOVERNMENT .
... highest qualities for government are often found in * * So denominated by Aristotle in speaking of Lycurgus's Constitu- tion for Sparta . one man , or in a few . But the Book III . ] 13 DIFFERENT FORMS OF GOVERNMENT .
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... tion ; a politic government , such as the aristocratie commonwealth we are describing , will borrow some- thing of the peculiarities of both . The test of the admixture of all the elements being well and com- pletely made , is , when a ...
... tion ; a politic government , such as the aristocratie commonwealth we are describing , will borrow some- thing of the peculiarities of both . The test of the admixture of all the elements being well and com- pletely made , is , when a ...
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... tion is chiefly composed of artizans and day - labourers . If the power of the wealthy and most considerable persons , centered in a few hands , greatly preponde- rates over that of the many , an oligarchy arises , more or less strict ...
... tion is chiefly composed of artizans and day - labourers . If the power of the wealthy and most considerable persons , centered in a few hands , greatly preponde- rates over that of the many , an oligarchy arises , more or less strict ...
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Page 224 - To be taught to despise danger in the pursuit of honour and duty; To be formed to the greatest degree of vigilance, foresight, and circumspection, in a state of things in which no fault is committed with impunity, and the slightest mistakes draw on the most ruinous consequences...
Page i - TREMENHEERE'S (HS) Political Experience of the Ancients, in its bearing on Modern Times. Fcap. Svo. 2s. 6d. Notes on Public Subjects, made during a Tour in the United States and Canada. Post 8vo. 10s. 6d. — Constitution of the United States compared with our own. Post 8vo. 9s. 6d. TWISS' (HORACE) Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, with Selections from his Correspondence.
Page 202 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Page 173 - Let me say with plainness, I who am no longer in a public character, that if by a fair, by an indulgent, by a gentlemanly behaviour to our representatives, we do not give confidence to their minds, and a liberal scope to their understandings ; if we do not permit our members to act upon a very enlarged view of things ; we shall at length infallibly degrade our national representation into a confused and scuffling bustle of local agency.
Page 226 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead ; Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Page 169 - It is the business of the speculative philosopher to mark the proper ends of government. It is the business of the politician, who is the philosopher in action, to find out proper means towards those ends. and to employ them with effect.
Page 173 - Then the monopoly of mental power will be added to the power of all other kinds it possesses. On the side of the people there will be nothing but impotence ; for ignorance is impotence ; narrowness of mind is impotence ; timidity is itself impotence, and makes all other qualities that go along with it impotent and useless.
Page 233 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.