The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason: At the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, on Tuesday the Twenty-eighth, Wednesday the Twenty-ninth, Thursday the Thirtieth, Friday the Thirty-first of October, and on Saturday the First, Monday the Third, Tuesday the Fourth, and Wednesday the Fifth of November, 1794, Τόμος 2

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Martha Gurney, 1795
 

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Σελίδα 16 - What is government more than the management of the * affairs of a Nation ? It is not, and from its nature cannot be, <* the property of any particular man or family, but of the whole " community, at whofe expence it is fupported; and though by ** force or contrivance
Σελίδα 15 - the exercife of Government requires talents and " abilities, and as talents and abilities cannot have hereditary * defcent, it is evident that hereditary fucceffion requires a belief " from man, to which his r-eafon cannot fubfcribe, and which *' can only be eftablifhed upon his ignorance} and the more " ignorant any country is, the better it is fitted for this
Σελίδα 27 - thofe prejudices have yet to ftand the teft of reafon " and reflection. In faft, fuch prejudices are nothing. No " man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be " wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right -, " and when he fees it is not fo, the prejudice will
Σελίδα 29 - with fuch a confolidated impulfe, that having no foreign " enemy to contend with, the revolution was complete in power " the moment it appeared. From both thofe inftances it is evi" dent, that the greateft forces that can be brought into the field " of revolutions, are reafon and Common intereft. Where thefe
Σελίδα 20 - Having thus glanced at fome of the defects of the Two «' Houfes of Parliament, I proceed to what is called the Crown, " upon which I fhall be very concife. " It fignifies a nominal office of a million fterling a year, " the bufinefs of which confifts in receiving the money.—• " Whether the perfon be wife or foolifh, fane or
Σελίδα 26 - both as to principle and form muft, on a parity " of reafoning, be as open to difcuffion as the defects of a *' law, and it is a duty which every man owes to fociety to .* point them out. When thofe
Σελίδα 21 - The only point upon which I could ever difcover that we " differed, was not as to principles of government, but as to " time. For my own part, I think it equally as injurious to " good principles to permit them to linger, as to pufh them on
Σελίδα 225 - to every man, not incapacitated " by nature, for want of reafon, or by law, for the commiffion of " crimes, together with annual elections, is the only reform that " can be effectual and permanent; I am further convinced, that " it is the only reform that is practicable.
Σελίδα 24 - elfe can do *' it, I am careful to avoid that rock. <( But as I would decline unneceflary publications on the *' one hand, fo would I avoid every thing that might appear " like fullen pride on the other. If Mr. Burke, or any perfon " on his fide the queftion, will produce an anfwer to the " Rights of Man,
Σελίδα 16 - Nation; and the knowledge neceflary to the intereft of all the " parts, is to be found in the centre, which the parts by repre« fentation form: But the old Governments are on a con?' ftruftion that excludes knowledge as well as happinefs;

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