Essays on Property and Labour as Connected with Natural Law and the Constitution of SocietyHarper & Brothers, 1841 - 225 Seiten |
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Seite ix - The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds. They must respect that property of which they cannot partake. They must labour to obtain what by labour can be obtained ; and when they find, as they commonly do, the success disproportioned to the endeavour, they must be taught their consolation in the final proportions of eternal justice. Of this consolation, whoever deprives them, deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all...
Seite 17 - ... sordid propensities ; so that they become the perpetual fountain of all that strengthens, and preserves, and adorns society: they sustain the individual, and they perpetuate the race. Around these institutions all our social duties will be found at various distances to range themselves ; some more near, obviously essential to the good order of human life ; others more remote, and of which the necessity is not at first view so apparent ; and some so distant, that their importance has been sometimes...
Seite 16 - ... they discipline the most ungovernable ; they refine the grossest, and they exalt the most sordid propensities ; so that they become the perpetual fountain of all that strengthens, and preserves, and adorns society ; they sustain the individual, and they perpetuate the race.
Seite 73 - But this supreme power has no effect towards internal taxation; for it does not exist in that relation ; there is no such thing, no such idea in this constitution, as a supreme power operating upon property.
Seite 73 - Americans their supreme, unalienable right in their property; a right which they are justified in the defence of to the last extremity. To maintain this principle is the common cause of the Whigs on the other side of the Atlantic, and on this. " 'Tis liberty to liberty engaged," that they will defend themselves, their families, and their country.
Seite ix - Good order is the foundation of all good things. To be enabled to acquire, the people, without being servile, must be tractable and obedient. The magistrate must have his reverence, the laws their authority. The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds. They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.
Seite 42 - A DESCRIPTION OF THE BURMESE EMPIRE; Compiled chiefly from Native Documents, by the Rev. FATHER SANGERMANO ; and Translated from his MS. by WILLIAM TANDY, DD Rome, Quarto; 16s.
Seite 20 - Even in then- case it were better to be cautious ; for husband and wife are like heart and body, and like as one heart cannot supply life to two bodies, one man can hardly provide for the management of two homes.n likely unveiled only, not undressed.