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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Pagina 14
... passion for the public good , were not motives strong enough to induce his heroes to desire to be in public life . They must be called , entreated , and forced . By single and plain - hearted men , he means the same , no doubt , with ...
... passion for the public good , were not motives strong enough to induce his heroes to desire to be in public life . They must be called , entreated , and forced . By single and plain - hearted men , he means the same , no doubt , with ...
Pagina 17
... passion do you think is the worst , the love of gold , or this pride and ambition ? His whole estate was seven acres of land , and he said once in assembly , " that a man who was not contented with seven acres of land , was a pernicious ...
... passion do you think is the worst , the love of gold , or this pride and ambition ? His whole estate was seven acres of land , and he said once in assembly , " that a man who was not contented with seven acres of land , was a pernicious ...
Pagina 18
... passion , which the laws did not tolerate , and scourged him with rods because he would not submit , all the punishment which the consuls and senate would impose on Plotius was imprisonment . This anecdote proves that the indifference ...
... passion , which the laws did not tolerate , and scourged him with rods because he would not submit , all the punishment which the consuls and senate would impose on Plotius was imprisonment . This anecdote proves that the indifference ...
Pagina 35
... passions incident to such a situation . But if a judgment must be pronounced , which was the best man and citizen , there are very strong arguments in favor of Manlius . The name of king was abhorred by the Romans . But who and what had ...
... passions incident to such a situation . But if a judgment must be pronounced , which was the best man and citizen , there are very strong arguments in favor of Manlius . The name of king was abhorred by the Romans . But who and what had ...
Pagina 43
... passion , and superstition , appear to have altogether governed the plebeians , without the least appearance of their being rational creatures , or moral agents ; such was their total ignorance of arts and letters , all the little ...
... passion , and superstition , appear to have altogether governed the plebeians , without the least appearance of their being rational creatures , or moral agents ; such was their total ignorance of arts and letters , all the little ...
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Pagina 266 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ; each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe : 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.
Pagina 264 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Pagina 199 - If you thus behave yourselves, and so become a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well...
Pagina 274 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...
Pagina 266 - 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 everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite ; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.
Pagina 517 - In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: 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 th
Pagina 168 - 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 265 - 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 233 - The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns, more or less, and glows, in every heart : The proud, to gain it, toils on toils endure ; The modest shun it, but to make it sure.
Pagina 266 - O, when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick. How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows...