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 36
... tyranny , no interest will be so dear to them as that of their liberty . Their liberty ! The liberty of plebeians at that time ! What a prostitution of sacred terms ! Yet , gross as was this artifice , it laid fast hold of those blind ...
... tyranny , no interest will be so dear to them as that of their liberty . Their liberty ! The liberty of plebeians at that time ! What a prostitution of sacred terms ! Yet , gross as was this artifice , it laid fast hold of those blind ...
Pagina 41
... tyranny of the senate , yet they had been gulled by patrician artifice into an oath against kings , and , although they felt the want of such a magistrate , they had not sense enough to see it . The agrarian law was opposed in the ...
... tyranny of the senate , yet they had been gulled by patrician artifice into an oath against kings , and , although they felt the want of such a magistrate , they had not sense enough to see it . The agrarian law was opposed in the ...
Pagina 42
... tyranny of patricians , and continually soliciting protectors against it ! Without regarding any moderation or proportion , the blind tools of the hatred and vengeance of their enemies , they con- demned Cassius to die , and the ...
... tyranny of patricians , and continually soliciting protectors against it ! Without regarding any moderation or proportion , the blind tools of the hatred and vengeance of their enemies , they con- demned Cassius to die , and the ...
Pagina 44
... tyranny of the decemviri , where ten men made a shift to enslave the senate as well as the people . " It is no won- der that Cassius , Mælius , and Manlius , were sacrificed to the passions of the senate , for until the year of Rome 300 ...
... tyranny of the decemviri , where ten men made a shift to enslave the senate as well as the people . " It is no won- der that Cassius , Mælius , and Manlius , were sacrificed to the passions of the senate , for until the year of Rome 300 ...
Pagina 48
... tyranny and cruelty became at length intolera- ble ; and the blood of Virginia , on a father's dagger , was alone sufficient to arouse a stupid people from their lethargy . Is it not absurd in Nedham to adduce this example , in support ...
... tyranny and cruelty became at length intolera- ble ; and the blood of Virginia , on a father's dagger , was alone sufficient to arouse a stupid people from their lethargy . Is it not absurd in Nedham to adduce this example , in support ...
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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...