Principles of government. Monarchical governmentH. Bohn, 1853 |
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Page 349 - ... sordid from one's infancy; to be taught to respect one's self; to be habituated to the censorial inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the wide-spread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society; to have leisure to read, to reflect, to converse...
Page 349 - To be bred in a place of estimation ; to see nothing low and sordid from one's infancy ; to be taught to respect one's self; to be habituated to the censorial inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion ; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the wide-spread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society...
Page 53 - ... so long as the established government cannot be resisted or changed without public inconveniency, it is the will of God that the established government be obeyed, and no longer. . . . This principle being admitted, the justice of every particular case of resistance is reduced to a computation of the quantity of the danger and grievance on the one side, and of the probability and expense of redressing it on the other.
Page 349 - ... 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 — to be led to a guarded and regulated conduct, from a sense that you are...
Page 53 - These points are wont to be approached with a kind of awe ; they are represented to the mind as principles of the constitution settled by our ancestors, and, being settled, to be no more committed to innovation or debate ; as foundations never to be stirred, as the terms and conditions of the social compact, to which every citizen of the state has engaged his fidelity, by virtue of a promise which he cannot now recall. Such reasons have no place in our system...
Page 54 - ... the sleeping lion. The people heard with astonishment doctrines preached from the throne and the pulpit, subversive of liberty and property, and all the natural rights of humanity. They examined into the divinity of this claim, and found it weakly and fallaciously supported...
Page 61 - Every other idea, and every other end that have been mixed with this, as the making of the church an engine, or even an ally of the state ; converting it into the means of strengthening or...
Page 53 - ... it. The danger of error and abuse is no objection to the rule of expediency, because every other rule is liable to the same or greater: and every rule that can be propounded upon the subject (like all rules indeed which appeal to, or bind the conscience), must in the application depend upon private judgment.
Page 53 - It may be as much a duty, at one time, to resist government, as it is, at another, to obey it; to wit, whenever more advantage will, in our opinion, accrue to the community, from resistance, than mischief.
Page 161 - ... policy of the state an unexampled mixture of wisdom and folly — profound views and superficial errors — patronage of art and of science, combined with prohibition of foreign improvements — encouragement of domestic industry, with exclusion of external commerce — promotion of inland manufactures and trade, without employing the precious metals as a medium of exchange — suffering perpetually from the population encroaching upon the means of subsistence, and yet systematically stimulating...