The works of ... Henry St. John, lord viscount Bolingbroke. With the life of lord Bolingbroke by dr. Goldsmith, now enlarged, Volume 1 |
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... Livy dates the original of liberty from the expulsion of the Tarquins , rather because the consular dignity was made annual , than because the regal power had suffered any diminution in that change * . The dictatorial power , the most ...
... Livy dates the original of liberty from the expulsion of the Tarquins , rather because the consular dignity was made annual , than because the regal power had suffered any diminution in that change * . The dictatorial power , the most ...
Halaman 330
... Livy and Quintus Curtius : a . silly tale , which Bodin , Amyot , and others have picked up , and propaga- ted . Lucullus had served in his youth against the Marsi , probably in other wars , and Sylla took early notice of him : he went ...
... Livy and Quintus Curtius : a . silly tale , which Bodin , Amyot , and others have picked up , and propaga- ted . Lucullus had served in his youth against the Marsi , probably in other wars , and Sylla took early notice of him : he went ...
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... Livy , " says Montagne , " what another man does not : and Plutarch read there what I do " not . " Just so the same man may read at fifty what he did not read in the same book at five and twenty : at least I have found it so , by my own ...
... Livy , " says Montagne , " what another man does not : and Plutarch read there what I do " not . " Just so the same man may read at fifty what he did not read in the same book at five and twenty : at least I have found it so , by my own ...
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... the festivals of Bacchus , Hellanicus was a poetical historian , and Acusilaus graved genealogies on plates of brass . Pictor , who is called I 66 called by Livy " scriptorum antiquissimus , " pub- 412 ON THE STUDY OF HISTORY : `
... the festivals of Bacchus , Hellanicus was a poetical historian , and Acusilaus graved genealogies on plates of brass . Pictor , who is called I 66 called by Livy " scriptorum antiquissimus , " pub- 412 ON THE STUDY OF HISTORY : `
Halaman 413
Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) 66 called by Livy " scriptorum antiquissimus , " pub- lished , I think , some short annals of his own time . Neither he nor Piso could have sufficient mate- rials for the history of Rome ; nor ...
Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) 66 called by Livy " scriptorum antiquissimus , " pub- lished , I think , some short annals of his own time . Neither he nor Piso could have sufficient mate- rials for the history of Rome ; nor ...
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Halaman 405 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Halaman 340 - ... them in parliament, purely because they are employed and trusted by the prince. Your lordship sees, not only how much a due reflection upon the experience of other ages and countries would have pointed out national corruption, as the natural and necessary consequence of investing the crown with the management of so great a revenue; but also the loss of liberty, as the natural and necessary consequence of national corruption.
Halaman 7 - ... and honour, than a minister who should conduct the administration with great ability and success, and should at the same time procure and abet, or even connive at, such indirect violations of the rules of the constitution as tend to the destruction of it, or even at such evasions as tend to render it useless.
Halaman 461 - And Philip the fourth was obliged, at last, to conclude a peace, on terms repugnant to his inclination, to that of his people, to the interest of Spain, and to that of all Europe, in the Pyrenean treaty.
Halaman 157 - By constitution we mean, whenever we speak with propriety and exactness, that assemblage of laws, institutions, and customs, derived from certain fixed principles of reason, directed to certain fixed objects of public good, that compose the general system, according to which the community hath agreed to be governed.
Halaman 38 - The power and majesty of the people, an original contract, the authority and independency of parliament, liberty, resistance, exclusion, abdication, deposition; these were ideas associated, at that time, to the idea of a w'hig, and supposed by every whig to be incommuaioable and inconsistent with the idea of a tory. Divine, hereditary, indefeasible right, lineal succession, passive obedience, prerogative, nonresistance, slavery, nay, and sometimes popery too...
Halaman 428 - But there have been lawyers that were orators, philosophers, historians: there have been Bacons and Clarendons. There will be none such any more, till in some better age true ambition, or the love of fame, prevails over avarice; and till men find leisure and encouragement to prepare themselves for the exercise of this profession, by climbing up to the vantage ground...
Halaman 315 - I approve therefore very much the devotion of a studious man at Christ-Church, who was overheard in his oratory entering into a detail with God, as devout...
Halaman 440 - Sixtus the fourth was, if I mistake not, a great collector of books at least.
Halaman 411 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, Credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, Orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus Describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent; Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento : Hae tibi erunt artes, pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.