The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, Volumul 6Little, Brown, 1851 |
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... prince , but purely of advice and despatch , with power only to persuade , not limit , the prince's will . " In such a situation , writers on the side of liberty thought themselves obliged to consider what was then practicable , not ...
... prince , but purely of advice and despatch , with power only to persuade , not limit , the prince's will . " In such a situation , writers on the side of liberty thought themselves obliged to consider what was then practicable , not ...
Pagina 19
... prince of the senate , and on his return , reported their commission to the senate ; said that the king had received them in the most obliging and honorable manner ; that he had sent them magnificent presents on their arrival , which ...
... prince of the senate , and on his return , reported their commission to the senate ; said that the king had received them in the most obliging and honorable manner ; that he had sent them magnificent presents on their arrival , which ...
Pagina 71
... prince who had an equitable desire of doing justice and easing the burdens of the plebeians ; to intrigue in continual factions to set up one king and butcher another ; to consider friendship and humanity and equity to the plebeians as ...
... prince who had an equitable desire of doing justice and easing the burdens of the plebeians ; to intrigue in continual factions to set up one king and butcher another ; to consider friendship and humanity and equity to the plebeians as ...
Pagina 76
... prince , or else are parties or compliers with some popular faction ; so , in this form of government by the people , the door of dignity stands open to all ( without exception ) that ascend thither by the steps of worth and virtue ...
... prince , or else are parties or compliers with some popular faction ; so , in this form of government by the people , the door of dignity stands open to all ( without exception ) that ascend thither by the steps of worth and virtue ...
Pagina 126
... prince and common people were defined , limited , and made constitutional and legal . The author's principle is excellent and eternal , " to keep any man , though he have deserved never so well by success or ser- vice , from being too ...
... prince and common people were defined , limited , and made constitutional and legal . The author's principle is excellent and eternal , " to keep any man , though he have deserved never so well by success or ser- vice , from being too ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 201 - If you thus behave yourselves, and so become a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...