The Pamphleteer, Volume 8Abraham John Valpy A.J. Valpy, 1816 |
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... less true that it is an imperious duty , binding on every mortal , to exert his utmost endeavours for the support of himself and those he has contributed to bring into the world . By the sweat of his brow man is ordained to earn his ...
... less true that it is an imperious duty , binding on every mortal , to exert his utmost endeavours for the support of himself and those he has contributed to bring into the world . By the sweat of his brow man is ordained to earn his ...
Page 28
... less than twenty - three thousand chil- dren born at Paris , eight thousand were bastards . What proportion of bastards are supported by their parents , I have no data to justify any conjecture . The education and maintenance of each ...
... less than twenty - three thousand chil- dren born at Paris , eight thousand were bastards . What proportion of bastards are supported by their parents , I have no data to justify any conjecture . The education and maintenance of each ...
Page 31
... less subject to those variations which bear so hard on the working classes . I have some doubts whether I may not have estimated the produce of agricultural labor too high , in supposing the gains of each family calculated , as ...
... less subject to those variations which bear so hard on the working classes . I have some doubts whether I may not have estimated the produce of agricultural labor too high , in supposing the gains of each family calculated , as ...
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... less than the indispensable necessity of re- lieving a great part of the community from burdens de- structive of their industry and comforts . On these grounds , sir , I shall move that a select committee be appointed , to take into ...
... less than the indispensable necessity of re- lieving a great part of the community from burdens de- structive of their industry and comforts . On these grounds , sir , I shall move that a select committee be appointed , to take into ...
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... less solidly known . Of the truth of this observation , the liberal reader will , I persuade myself , be fully convinced from an attentive perusal of the following sheets ; in which the secret meaning of the Eleusinian and Bacchic ...
... less solidly known . Of the truth of this observation , the liberal reader will , I persuade myself , be fully convinced from an attentive perusal of the following sheets ; in which the secret meaning of the Eleusinian and Bacchic ...
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Page 267 - The powers consequently declare, that Napoleon Buonaparte has placed himself without the pale of civil and social relations, and that as an enemy and disturber of the tranquillity of the world, he has rendered himself liable to public vengeance.
Page 399 - Ye are the salt of the earth : but if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.
Page 245 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth, that let no man in this world expect ; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
Page 25 - it is one of the finest problems in legislation to determine what the state ought to take upon itself to direct by public wisdom, and what it ought to leave, with as little interference as possible, to individual exertion.
Page 37 - The first volume of his chief work was published, in 1738, under the title of the Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated on the Principles of a Religious Deist, from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Rewards and Punishments in the Jewish Dispensation.
Page 450 - But if it be true, as we learn from history and experience, that free governments afford a soil most suitable to the production of native talent, to the maturing of the powers of the human mind, and to the growth of every species of excellence, by opening to merit the prospect of reward and distinction, no country can be better adapted than our own to afford an honourable asylum to these monuments of the school of Phidias and of the administration of Pericle,s; where, secure from further injury and...
Page 511 - ... to the State itself, nor to any body in it ; as there can be no security for the uniformity in the value of the currency, when its augmentation or diminution depends solely on the will of the issuers. That the Bank have the power of reducing the circulation to the very narrowest limits will not be denied, even by those who agree in opinion with the directors, that they have not the power of adding indefinitely to its quantity.
Page 321 - ... forcibly separated from his wife and children, dragged to public auction, purchased by a stranger, and perhaps sent to terminate his miserable existence in the mines of Mexico; excluded for ever from the light of heaven! and all this without any crime or imprudence on his part, real or pretended. He is punished because his master is unfortunate.
Page 11 - ... a convenient stock of flax hemp wool thread iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work: and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame impotent old blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
Page 572 - My son, fear thou the LORD and the king : and meddle not with them that are given to change...