Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Том 1Bell & Bradfute, 1804 |
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... give a cer- tain elegance of sentiment to which the rest of mankind are strangers . The emotions which they excite are soft and tender . They draw off the mind from the hurry of business and interest ; cherish reflection ; dispose to ...
... give a cer- tain elegance of sentiment to which the rest of mankind are strangers . The emotions which they excite are soft and tender . They draw off the mind from the hurry of business and interest ; cherish reflection ; dispose to ...
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... give occasion to a ques- tion , How it happens that GREAT BRITAIN alone enjoys this peculiar privilege ? The reason , why the laws indulge us in such a liberty seems to be derived from our mixed form of government , which is neither ...
... give occasion to a ques- tion , How it happens that GREAT BRITAIN alone enjoys this peculiar privilege ? The reason , why the laws indulge us in such a liberty seems to be derived from our mixed form of government , which is neither ...
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... give jealousy to the state , there is no danger in intrusting the magistrates with large dis- cretionary powers ; and though many advantages result from such powers , in preserving peace and order , yet they lay a considerable restraint ...
... give jealousy to the state , there is no danger in intrusting the magistrates with large dis- cretionary powers ; and though many advantages result from such powers , in preserving peace and order , yet they lay a considerable restraint ...
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... give no better chance for superior merit in the prince , than if the state had trusted to birth alone . for determining their sovereign . It may therefore be pronounced as an universal axiom in politics , That an hereditary prince , a ...
... give no better chance for superior merit in the prince , than if the state had trusted to birth alone . for determining their sovereign . It may therefore be pronounced as an universal axiom in politics , That an hereditary prince , a ...
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... give birth to it , with regard to the public . Men naturally look for the greatest favours from their friends and acquaintance ; and therefore , the hopes of any considerable number of the state would never center in any particular set ...
... give birth to it , with regard to the public . Men naturally look for the greatest favours from their friends and acquaintance ; and therefore , the hopes of any considerable number of the state would never center in any particular set ...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: essays, moral, political ..., Том 1 David Hume Полный просмотр - 1825 |
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Стр. 545 - I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences...
Стр. 124 - To balance a large state or society (says he) whether monarchical or republican, on general laws, is a work of so great difficulty that no human genius, however comprehensive, is able by the mere dint of reason and reflection, to effect it The judgments of many must unite in the work: experience must guide their labor: time must bring it to perfection: and the feeling of inconveniences must correct the mistakes which they inevitably fall into, in their first trials and experiments.
Стр. 27 - NOTHING appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few ; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.
Стр. 343 - In opposition to this narrow and malignant opinion, I will venture to assert, that the increase of riches and commerce in any one nation, instead of hurting, commonly promotes the riches and commerce of all its neighbours...
Стр. 302 - The workman has not the same employment from the manufacturer and merchant; though he pays the same price for every thing in the market. The farmer cannot dispose of his corn and cattle, though he must pay the same rent to his landlord. The poverty and beggary, and sloth, which must ensue, are easily foreseen.
Стр. 545 - Such a uniform and constant difference could not happen, in so many countries and ages, if nature had not made an original distinction between these breeds of men. Not to mention our colonies, there are Negroe slaves dispersed all over Europe, of whom none ever discovered any symptoms of ingenuity; tho' low people, without education, will start up amongst us, and distinguish themselves in every profession.
Стр. 266 - ... it is the chief business of philosophers to regard the general course of things. I may add, that it is also the chief business of politicians; especially in the domestic government of the state, where the public good, which is, or ought to be their object, depends on the concurrence of a multitude of causes; not, as in foreign politics, on accidents and chances, and the caprices of a few persons.
Стр. 50 - And, as such a violent government cannot long subsist, we shall at last, after many convulsions and civil wars, find repose in absolute monarchy, which it would have been happier for us to have established peaceably from the beginning. Absolute monarchy, therefore, is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the British constitution.
Стр. 469 - Were you to preach, in most parts of the world, that political connections are founded altogether on voluntary consent or a mutual promise, the magistrate would soon imprison you as seditious for loosening the ties of obedience, if your friends did not before shut you up as delirious for advancing such absurdities.
Стр. 326 - Suppose four-fifths of all the money in GREAT BRITAIN to be annihilated in one night, and the nation reduced to the same condition, with regard to specie, as in the reigns of the HARRYS and EDWARDS, what would be the consequence? Must not the price of all labour and commodities sink in proportion, and everything be sold as cheap as they were in those ages?