Education in England, repr. from the 'Morning advertiser'. Revolutions in France, written for the 'North British review'. Free trade in colonization. [3 papers]. |
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עמוד 38 - Nothing could be more idle, at any time since the Revolution, than to suppose that the regular army would pull the speaker out of his chair, or in any manner be employed to confirm a despotic power in the crown. Such power, I think, could never have been the waking dream of either king or minister.
עמוד 59 - OF GOODNESS, AND GOODNESS OF NATURE. I take goodness in this sense, the affecting of the weal of men, which is that the Grecians call Philanthropia ; and the word humanity (as it is used) is a little too light to express it. Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the Deity ; and without it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.
עמוד 16 - And e'en the child, who knows no better Than to interpret by the letter, A story of a cock and bull, Must have a most uncommon skull.
עמוד 89 - Obvious her goods, in no extreme they dwell : There needs but thinking right and meaning well; And mourn our various portions as we please, Equal is common sense and common ease. Remember, man, ' the Universal Cause Acts not by partial but by general laws,' And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
עמוד 48 - European expansion at the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth.
עמוד 83 - Legislature as soon as they had granted a few taxes. M. Necker plainly told the King, that he did not think that the army could be relied on ; and that he ought to make up his mind to reign hereafter under a constitution like that of England. There were fierce disputes, and endless consultations ; and at length, within three weeks after the States were opened, and before the Commons had gained any decided advantage, M.
עמוד 58 - Human societies are born, live and die, on the earth ; it is there their destinies are accomplished. . . . But they contain not the whole man. After he has engaged himself to society, there remains to him the noblest part of himself, those high faculties by which he elevates himself to God, to a future life, to unknown felicity in an invisible world. . . . We, persons individual and identical, veritable beings endowed with immortality, we have a different destiny from that of states...
עמוד 58 - Have we here exhausted all the natural, ordinary meaning of the word civilization? Does the fact contain nothing more than this? It is almost as if we asked: is the human species after all a mere ant-hill, a society in which all that is required is order and physical happiness, in which the greater the amount of labour, and the more equitable the division of the fruits of labour, the more surely is the object attained, the progress accomplished. Our instinct at once feels repugnant to so narrow a...
עמוד 55 - Liberty is a right which every individual must be ready to vindicate for himself, and which he who pretends to bestow as a favour, has by that very act in reality denied. Even political establishments, though they appear to be independent of the will and arbitration of men, cannot be relied on for the preservation of freedom ; they may nourish, but should not supersede that firm and resolute spirit, with which the liberal mind is always prepared to...
עמוד 99 - ... varied by pretexts, still more shameless, of rights by grant, purchase and conquest. The title, then, by which the different powers now hold their Colonial territories, very much resembles that by which all nations have possessed their dominions in every age and quarter of the globe — the right of the strongest and most crafty, assumed over those who could neither resist or escape — and admitted by others, who dared not oppose it, or who shared in the spoil. ' ' Colonial Policy,