The Political Text Book: Comprising a View of the Origin and Objects of Government, and an Examination of the Principal Social and Political Institutions of EnglandWm. Strange, 1833 - 248 Seiten |
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... rich and poor , noble and ignoble , patrician and plebeian , aristocrat and democrat , rulers and ruled . These are all distinctions produced by society itself , and are separable from the original constitution of the social fabric ...
... rich and poor , noble and ignoble , patrician and plebeian , aristocrat and democrat , rulers and ruled . These are all distinctions produced by society itself , and are separable from the original constitution of the social fabric ...
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... rich or poor , all are stimulated from the cradle , in all their childish pastimes , and in all their elementary education , to aim only at one object , which is to get above a neighbour . A comparison is drawn , not between the pupil ...
... rich or poor , all are stimulated from the cradle , in all their childish pastimes , and in all their elementary education , to aim only at one object , which is to get above a neighbour . A comparison is drawn , not between the pupil ...
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... rich or poor , according as his exertions in business enable him to command a liberal or scanty supply of the comforts and enjoyments of life ; and this is invariably regulated by the largeness or smallness of the profits which he is ...
... rich or poor , according as his exertions in business enable him to command a liberal or scanty supply of the comforts and enjoyments of life ; and this is invariably regulated by the largeness or smallness of the profits which he is ...
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... rich enough to purchase their own land , the community of goods does not include the land , any more than the equality in rank includes the land - owner . The land - owner and the society stand in the ordinary relation of landlord and ...
... rich enough to purchase their own land , the community of goods does not include the land , any more than the equality in rank includes the land - owner . The land - owner and the society stand in the ordinary relation of landlord and ...
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... rich and poor alike , to support and maintain this rule of equal justice among them . They therefore renounce not only the despotic form , but the despotic principle , as well of governing as of being governed by mere will and power ...
... rich and poor alike , to support and maintain this rule of equal justice among them . They therefore renounce not only the despotic form , but the despotic principle , as well of governing as of being governed by mere will and power ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 244 - Ye have brought this man unto me as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him : No, nor yet Herod : for I sent you to him ; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him. I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
Seite 214 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Seite 126 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Seite 3 - Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.
Seite 127 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Seite 65 - Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel ; and they said, Nay ; but we will have a king over us ; that we also may be like all the nations ; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Seite 147 - The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Seite 127 - Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Seite 45 - Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
Seite 244 - And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him : but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.