The History of Political Literature, from the Earliest Times, Հատոր 2R. Bentley, 1855 |
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... discussion , and the struggles of life and death made for their establishment , present one of the most instructive and interesting displays of the mind of man , during the whole range of his earthly history . It cannot fail , we ...
... discussion , and the struggles of life and death made for their establishment , present one of the most instructive and interesting displays of the mind of man , during the whole range of his earthly history . It cannot fail , we ...
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... discussing the merits of the Grecian sages . Gemistus Pletho , Marsilius Ficino , Cardinal Bassarion and others arraigned themselves on the side of Plato , and his philosophy generally ; while Theodore Gaza and George Trebisond stood ...
... discussing the merits of the Grecian sages . Gemistus Pletho , Marsilius Ficino , Cardinal Bassarion and others arraigned themselves on the side of Plato , and his philosophy generally ; while Theodore Gaza and George Trebisond stood ...
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... discussions flowed into parti- cular channels . This gave rise to great parties in every state ; the aggregate of those national ideas and volitions which have given decided tendencies towards certain fixed principles of action , and ...
... discussions flowed into parti- cular channels . This gave rise to great parties in every state ; the aggregate of those national ideas and volitions which have given decided tendencies towards certain fixed principles of action , and ...
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... discussing the vital in- terests of society . It generally sets itself , therefore , against innovations , both speculative and practical . Whatever is , is here right . To alter , to improve , to change , is not its character . Yet the ...
... discussing the vital in- terests of society . It generally sets itself , therefore , against innovations , both speculative and practical . Whatever is , is here right . To alter , to improve , to change , is not its character . Yet the ...
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... discussions . This was a new element thrown into society . History here puts forth its claim to teach the politician from the past to the future ; both as to purely abstract principles , and practical statemanship . The philosophical ...
... discussions . This was a new element thrown into society . History here puts forth its claim to teach the politician from the past to the future ; both as to purely abstract principles , and practical statemanship . The philosophical ...
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Էջ 133 - But we do hope to find out all your tricks, Your plots and packing, worse than those of Trent, That so the Parliament May, with their wholesome and preventive shears, Clip your phylacteries, though baulk your ears, And succour our just fears When they shall read this clearly in your charge, New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ large.
Էջ 163 - This power to act according to discretion for the public good, without the prescription of the law and sometimes even against it...
Էջ 422 - Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son, This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world...
Էջ 172 - These are the heroes that despise the Dutch And rail at new-come foreigners so much ; Forgetting that themselves are all derived From the most scoundrel race that ever lived...
Էջ 158 - May I speak a few words in my own defence? Judge. Sirrah, Sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.
Էջ 108 - Person should be compelled to make any Loans to the King against his Will, because such Loans were against Reason and the Franchise of the Land ; and by other Laws of this Realm it is provided, That none should be charged by any Charge or Imposition called a Benevolence...
Էջ 125 - Areopagitica, a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed Printing.
Էջ 135 - ... where they undoubtedly, that by their labours, counsels, and prayers, have been earnest for the common good of religion and their country, shall receive above the inferior orders of the blessed, the regal addition of principalities, legions, and thrones into their glorious titles ; and in supereminence of beatific vision, progressing the dateless and irrevohible circle of eternity, shall clasp inseparable hands with joy and bliss, in over-measure for ever.
Էջ 102 - England, and the making and maintenance of laws, and redress of mischiefs and grievances, which daily happen within this Realm, are proper subjects and matter of counsel and debate in Parliament ; and that in the handling and proceeding of those businesses every member of the House hath, and of right ought to have, Freedom of Speech, to propound, treat, reason and bring to conclusion the same...
Էջ 59 - ... period, who united elegant learning to original and masculine thought, was Buchanan ; and he, too, seems, to have been the first scholar who caught from the ancients the noble flame of republican enthusiasm. This praise is merited by his neglected, though incomparable, tract, ' De Jure Regni,' in which the principles of popular politics, and the maxims of a free government, are delivered with a precision, and enforced with an energy, which no former age had equalled, and no succeeding has surpassed.