The Politician's CreedRobinsons; T. Cox; Dilly; Murray and Highley; Richardson; White; Becket, and Edwards; Hookham and Carpenter; and H.D. Symonds, 1799 - 2 páginas |
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... because fuch a tyrannical government promotes not the intereft of the whole body , however it may that of fome individuals . - There will be a diftinction of rank between the nobility and people , but this will be the the only ...
... because fuch a tyrannical government promotes not the intereft of the whole body , however it may that of fome individuals . - There will be a diftinction of rank between the nobility and people , but this will be the the only ...
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... good he has a mind to ; and wants no degree of authority , but what a good prince would not , and an ill one ought not to have : where he governs , though not abfolute- ly , yet gloriously , because he governs men , 5 ly , XX.
... good he has a mind to ; and wants no degree of authority , but what a good prince would not , and an ill one ought not to have : where he governs , though not abfolute- ly , yet gloriously , because he governs men , 5 ly , XX.
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Robert John Thornton. ly , yet gloriously , because he governs men , and not flaves ; and is obeyed by them cheerfully , be- cause they know that , in obeying him , they obey thofe laws only which they themselves have had a fhare in ...
Robert John Thornton. ly , yet gloriously , because he governs men , and not flaves ; and is obeyed by them cheerfully , be- cause they know that , in obeying him , they obey thofe laws only which they themselves have had a fhare in ...
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... because it is here a com- mon concern ; but private crimes will go unpunished , ber cause it is the common interest not to punish them . Now fuch a body as this will reftrain itself only two ways ; either by a very eminent virtue ...
... because it is here a com- mon concern ; but private crimes will go unpunished , ber cause it is the common interest not to punish them . Now fuch a body as this will reftrain itself only two ways ; either by a very eminent virtue ...
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... because it will be continually checked . It is with this kind of government as with the fyftem of the universe , in which there is a power that con- ftantly repels all bodies from the center , and a power of gravitation that attracts ...
... because it will be continually checked . It is with this kind of government as with the fyftem of the universe , in which there is a power that con- ftantly repels all bodies from the center , and a power of gravitation that attracts ...
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Página 121 - ... the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Página 119 - But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
Página 90 - On foreign mountains may the Sun refine The grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine, With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil : We envy not the warmer clime, that lies...
Página 143 - But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and show them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them.
Página 119 - One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head ; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper...
Página 99 - ... 4. Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. A tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets of the people a great deal more than it brings into the public treasury, in the four following ways.
Página 127 - In the progress of society, philosophy or speculation becomes, like every other employment, the principal or sole trade and occupation of a particular class of citizens. Like every other employment too, it is subdivided into a great number of different branches, each of which affords occupation to a peculiar tribe or class of philosophers; and this subdivision of employment in philosophy, as well as in every other business, improves dexterity, and saves time.
Página 123 - It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another, that is carried on in a different place, and with quite different tools. A country weaver who cultivates a small farm must lose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to the field and from the field to his loom. When the two trades can be carried on in the same workhouse the loss of time is no doubt much less. It is even in this case, however, very considerable. A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from...
Página 41 - These seem to be the events, which are not very remote, and which reason foresees as clearly almost as she can do any thing that lies in the womb of time. And though the ancients maintained, that, in order to reach the gift of prophecy, a certain divine fury or madness was requisite, one may safely affirm, that, in order to deliver such prophecies as these, no more is necessary than merely to be in one's senses, free from the influence of popular madness and delusion.
Página 97 - Where it is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the taxgatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor or extort, by the terror of such aggravation, some present or perquisite to himself.