Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks Adapted to the Present State of Great BritainJ. Rivington, 1778 - 392 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 291 - Mox trahitur manibus regum fortuna retortis, Esseda festinant, pilenta, petorrita, naves, Captivum portatur ebur, captiva Corinthus. Si foret in terris rideret Democritus, seu Diversum...
Σελίδα 269 - from Asia preceded the ruin of Carthage in ' point of time, yet as Sallust informs us> ' the dread of that dangerous rival restrained ' the Romans within the bounds of decency ' and order. But as soon as ever that obstacle ' was removed, they gave a full scope to their
Σελίδα 15 - ... for the plaindealing remonstrances of a friend differ as widely from the rancour of an enemy, as the friendly probe of a surgeon from the dagger of an assassin.
Σελίδα 278 - ... and who will not submit tamely to the chains of faction. Force will then be called in to the aid of corruption, a military government will be established on the ruins of the civil, and all commands and employments will be at the disposal of arbitrary, lawless power. The people will be fleeced to pay for their own fetters, and doomed, like the cattle, to unremitting toil and drudgery, for the support of their tyrannical masters.
Σελίδα 306 - The several and various characters he sustained in his life and writings, habituated him to feign and dissemble his opinions. He may be considered as an orator, a statesman, a philosopher, characters all equally personated ; and no one more the real man than the other, but each of them taken up and laid down for the occasion. This appears from the numerous inconsistencies found in him throughout the course of his sustaining them.
Σελίδα 143 - There cannot be a more certain symptom of the approaching ruin of a state, than when a firm adherence to party is fixed upon as the only test of merit, and when all the qualifications, requisite to the discharge of every employment, are reduced to that single standard.
Σελίδα 303 - ... discidium fuerit, quibus e sumus uniter apti, scilicet baud nobis quicquam, qui non erimus tum, accidere omnino poterit sensumque movere, non si terra mari miscebitur et mare caelo!
Σελίδα 295 - But we have indifputably furpafled all the nations in the univerfe in piety and attachment to religion, and in the only point which can be called true wifdom, a thorough conviction, that all things here below are directed, and governed by Divine Providence.
Σελίδα 298 - Atheifm, which is the never-failing attendant of luxury. But as long as this principle remained, it controuled manners, and checked the progrefs of luxury, in proportion to its influence. But when the introduction of Atheifm: had deftroyed this...