The Advocate, Ausgabe 4Farrah & Dunbar, 1861 |
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Seite 46 - Twill be but fair to lean upon their fames ; For they are strong supporters : but, till then, The greatest are but growing gentlemen.
Seite 50 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need ; and they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favour with all the people.
Seite 45 - ... If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote in electing those delegates, to whose charge is committed the disposal of his property, his liberty, and his life. But, since that can hardly be expected in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged...
Seite 47 - ... maketh a man contemptible, soon old, and despised of all wise and worthy men ; hated in thy servants, in thyself, and companions, for it is a bewitching and infectious vice.
Seite 45 - Tullius, it was principally property, and not numbers, that turned the scale : in the method by tribes, gradually introduced by the tribunes of the people, numbers only were regarded, and property entirely overlooked. Hence the laws passed by the former method had usually too great a tendency to aggrandize the patricians or rich nobles ; and those by the latter had too much of a levelling principle. Our constitution steers between the two extremes. Only such are entirely excluded, as can have no...
Seite 52 - you inquire for widow , I can only pity you. I have known her but a short time ; but she was the best woman I ever knew. Her little boy died of a fever about a year ago, and in consequence of fatigue in taking care of him, and anxiety for a long absent son at sea, the good widow herself was buried yesterday.
Seite 29 - ... not obtained. If radical reform is not, at such a moment, procured, all partial changes are evaded and defeated in the tranquillity which succeeds. The gradual reform that arises from the presiding principle exhibited in the specious theory of Mr. Burke, is belied by the experience of all ages. Whatever excellence, whatever freedom is discoverable in Governments, has been infused into them by the shock of a revolution, and their...
Seite 45 - In the method by centuries, instituted by Servius Tullius, it was principally property, and not numbers, that turned the scale : in the method by tribes, gradually introduced by the tribunes of the people, numbers only were regarded, and property entirely overlooked.
Seite 39 - I could at fifteen years how beings who call themselves reasonable, and who have so much foresight, can employ this short existence not in loving and aiding each other, and passing through it as gently as possible, but on the contrary, in...
Seite 27 - Have the courage to discharge a debt while you have the money in your pocket. Have the courage to do without that which you do not need» however much your eyes may covet it. Have the courage to speak to a friend in a seedy coat, even though you are in company with a rich one, and richly attired.