The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, Հատոր 6Little, Brown, 1851 |
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... thing . That the government is not in the law , but in the person whose will gives a being to that law . That the perfection of monarchy consists in governing by a nobility , weighty enough to keep the people under , yet not tall enough ...
... thing . That the government is not in the law , but in the person whose will gives a being to that law . That the perfection of monarchy consists in governing by a nobility , weighty enough to keep the people under , yet not tall enough ...
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... thing be demanded , and voted . What would be the consequence of this ? The idle , the vicious , the intemperate , would rush into the utmost extravagance of debauchery , sell and spend all their share , and then demand a new division ...
... thing be demanded , and voted . What would be the consequence of this ? The idle , the vicious , the intemperate , would rush into the utmost extravagance of debauchery , sell and spend all their share , and then demand a new division ...
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... thing to his own ambition . When the public finances were exhausted , to avoid accounting for the public money , he involved his country in a war with Sparta . But we must not rely upon these general observations alone ; let us descend ...
... thing to his own ambition . When the public finances were exhausted , to avoid accounting for the public money , he involved his country in a war with Sparta . But we must not rely upon these general observations alone ; let us descend ...
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... thing left , to be adjudged to your creditors , and made slaves . " This , no doubt , made him very popular ; but , in the warmth of his democratical zeal , he had been transported upon some occasion to say in his own house , that the ...
... thing left , to be adjudged to your creditors , and made slaves . " This , no doubt , made him very popular ; but , in the warmth of his democratical zeal , he had been transported upon some occasion to say in his own house , that the ...
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... thing discovered symptoms of an immediate revolt . Here comes in a trait of aristocratical cunning , ad captandum vulgus , much more gross than any that had been practised by Manlius . To soften the people , the senate became generous ...
... thing discovered symptoms of an immediate revolt . Here comes in a trait of aristocratical cunning , ad captandum vulgus , much more gross than any that had been practised by Manlius . To soften the people , the senate became generous ...
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Էջ 268 - Sans check, to good and bad : but when the planets, In evil mixture, to disorder wander. What plagues, and what portents! what mutiny! What raging of the sea! shaking of earth! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture ! O, when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick.
Էջ 267 - And posts, like the commandment of a King, Sans check, to good and bad: but when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents, what mutiny, What raging of the sea. shaking of earth, Commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!
Էջ 267 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Էջ 519 - Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel : And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against the Eternal Cause.
Էջ 543 - Curse ye Meroz ; — curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof ; because they came not up to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty."* My second argument is grounded on the example of Christ and his apostles.
Էջ 201 - If you thus behave yourselves, and so become a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well...
Էջ 170 - The instruction of the people in every kind of knowledge that can be of use to them in the practice of their moral duties as men, citizens, and Christians, and of their political and civil duties as members of society and freemen, ought to be the care of the public, and of all who have any share in the conduct of its affairs, in a manner that never yet has been practiced in any age or nation.
Էջ 267 - Keeps honour bright : to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way ; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path...
Էջ 268 - 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...
Էջ 266 - With well-feign'd gratitude the pension'd band Refund the plunder of the beggar'd land. See ! while he builds, the gaudy vassals come, And crowd with sudden wealth the rising dome The price of boroughs and of souls restore, And raise his treasures higher than before : Now...