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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... virtue . As to usurping others ' rights , they are all three equally guilty when unlimited in power . No wise man will trust either with an opportunity ; and every judicious legislator will set all three to watch and control each other ...
... virtue . As to usurping others ' rights , they are all three equally guilty when unlimited in power . No wise man will trust either with an opportunity ; and every judicious legislator will set all three to watch and control each other ...
Pagina 15
... virtues to be diminished ; but such examples are as rare among statesmen , as Homers and Miltons are among poets . A free people of common sense will not depend upon finding a sufficient number of such characters at any one time , still ...
... virtues to be diminished ; but such examples are as rare among statesmen , as Homers and Miltons are among poets . A free people of common sense will not depend upon finding a sufficient number of such characters at any one time , still ...
Pagina 18
... virtues of its ancient owner , and desiring warmly to imitate them . But , though declamatory writers might call the conduct of Curius " exactissima Romanæ frugalitatis norma , " it was not the general character , even of the senators ...
... virtues of its ancient owner , and desiring warmly to imitate them . But , though declamatory writers might call the conduct of Curius " exactissima Romanæ frugalitatis norma , " it was not the general character , even of the senators ...
Pagina 19
... virtues and magnanimous actions of Curius , make nothing in favor of Nedham . He was a patrician , a senator , and a consul ; he had been taught by aristocratical ancestors , formed in an aristocratical school , and was full of ...
... virtues and magnanimous actions of Curius , make nothing in favor of Nedham . He was a patrician , a senator , and a consul ; he had been taught by aristocratical ancestors , formed in an aristocratical school , and was full of ...
Pagina 25
... virtues which grew up only in a few aristocratical families , were cultivated by the emulation between the two orders in the state , and by their struggles to check and balance each other , to prove the excel- lence of a state where ...
... virtues which grew up only in a few aristocratical families , were cultivated by the emulation between the two orders in the state , and by their struggles to check and balance each other , to prove the excel- lence of a state where ...
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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...