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Page 89
... interest may be the very fource of its danger , as well as the certain ruin of interests of a fuperiour order . Often has a man loft his all because he would not submit to ha- zard all in defending it . A difplay of our wealth before ...
... interest may be the very fource of its danger , as well as the certain ruin of interests of a fuperiour order . Often has a man loft his all because he would not submit to ha- zard all in defending it . A difplay of our wealth before ...
Page 112
... interests of state will for a moment fuperfede all other confiderations : but if there was a rule that a fovereign never fhould let down his dignity without a fure payment to his interest , the dignity of Kings would be held high enough ...
... interests of state will for a moment fuperfede all other confiderations : but if there was a rule that a fovereign never fhould let down his dignity without a fure payment to his interest , the dignity of Kings would be held high enough ...
Page 128
... ; that is , the defign of cheating not only them , but the people of England , against whose interest and inclination this war is fuppofed to be carried on . If we proceed in this business , under this preli If 128 LETTERS ON A.
... ; that is , the defign of cheating not only them , but the people of England , against whose interest and inclination this war is fuppofed to be carried on . If we proceed in this business , under this preli If 128 LETTERS ON A.
Page 129
... interests require , then , and in that cafe , we shall continue the war with vigour . This offer fo reafoned , plainly implies , that without it , our leaders themselves entertain great doubts of the opinion and good affections of the ...
... interests require , then , and in that cafe , we shall continue the war with vigour . This offer fo reafoned , plainly implies , that without it , our leaders themselves entertain great doubts of the opinion and good affections of the ...
Page 130
... interests and wishes of the nation , for the purpose of cheating both the people of France and the people of England . He gocs out the declared emiffary of a faithlefs minif try . He has perfidy for his credentials . He has national ...
... interests and wishes of the nation , for the purpose of cheating both the people of France and the people of England . He gocs out the declared emiffary of a faithlefs minif try . He has perfidy for his credentials . He has national ...
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Page 50 - ... rights; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order, for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity...
Page 49 - British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers, as long as this awful structure shall oversee and guard the subjected land — so long the mounds and dykes of the low, fat, Bedford level* will have nothing to fear from all the pickaxes of all the levellers of France.
Page 35 - he lies floating many a rood' he is still a creature. His ribs, his fins, his whalebone, his blubber, the very spiracles through which he spouts a torrent of brine against his origin, and covers me all over with the spray, everything of him and about him is from the throne.
Page 48 - ... who take up, even puny arms, to defend an order of things, which, like the sun of heaven, shines alike on the useful and the worthless.
Page 165 - The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity .. the rest is crime.
Page 40 - The merit of the origin of his Grace's fortune was in being a favourite and chief adviser to a prince, who left no liberty to their native country. My endeavour was to obtain liberty for the municipal country in which I was born, and for all descriptions and denominations in it. Mine was to support with unrelaxing vigilance every right, every privilege, every franchise, in this my adopted, my dearer, and more comprehensive country...
Page 43 - Russell are entitled to the favour of the Crown? Why should he imagine that no king of England has been capable of judging of merit but King Henry the Eighth? Indeed he will pardon me; he is a little mistaken; all virtue did not end in the first Earl of Bedford. All discernment did not lose its vision when his Creator closed his eyes. Let him remit his rigour on the disproportion between merit and reward in others, and they will make no inquiry into the origin of his fortune. They...
Page 27 - Nitor in adversum" is the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one of the qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favour and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts by imposing on the understandings, of the people. At every step of my progress in life, (for in every step was I traversed and opposed,) and at every turnpike I met, I was...
Page 368 - Father of all blessings — it is tempered with many alleviations, many comforts. Every attempt to fly from it, and to refuse the very terms of our existence, becomes much more truly a curse, and heavier pains and penalties fall upon those who would elude the tasks which are put upon them by the great Master...
Page 47 - But we are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain, and poverty, and disease. It is an instinct ; and under the direction of reason, instinct is always in the right.