An Old Man's Thoughts about Many ThingsBell and Daldy, 1872 - 379 páginas |
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... reason or deductions contrary to reason , or by considerations on the nature of things in general , I have deferred the event , which still maintain to be certain , to a remote time ; remote enough to comprise the whole period allowed ...
... reason or deductions contrary to reason , or by considerations on the nature of things in general , I have deferred the event , which still maintain to be certain , to a remote time ; remote enough to comprise the whole period allowed ...
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... reasons , it is obvious , as the philosophical writers and critics say when they can't prove what they assert , that I may go on a little longer without wearying any- body except myself . If the happy invention of printing had been ...
... reasons , it is obvious , as the philosophical writers and critics say when they can't prove what they assert , that I may go on a little longer without wearying any- body except myself . If the happy invention of printing had been ...
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... reason that men after my age see very little ; certainly I have lived long enough to hear all that is said and a great deal more than is worth listening to . This mention of Marcus Aurelius leads me to make a remark which the reader ...
... reason that men after my age see very little ; certainly I have lived long enough to hear all that is said and a great deal more than is worth listening to . This mention of Marcus Aurelius leads me to make a remark which the reader ...
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... reason for this act of faith was that the books were books on chivalry and the reading of them had turned the Don's brain . I do not deny that such books are very mischievous and that it was right to burn them , and if most of our ...
... reason for this act of faith was that the books were books on chivalry and the reading of them had turned the Don's brain . I do not deny that such books are very mischievous and that it was right to burn them , and if most of our ...
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... reason could be shown why they should be brought into the world . If they are wanted , we must take them according to their nature , as we take cocoa - nuts for example , husk , shell and all ; in which I never found anything worth the ...
... reason could be shown why they should be brought into the world . If they are wanted , we must take them according to their nature , as we take cocoa - nuts for example , husk , shell and all ; in which I never found anything worth the ...
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Página 350 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Página 350 - subjects of every State ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities, that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State.
Página 346 - There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
Página 302 - If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the expense of defending those provinces in time of war, and of supporting any part of their civil or : military establishments in time of peace, and ,' endeavour to accommodate her future views/ and designs to the real mediocrity of her circumstances.
Página 277 - That the National Religion of the country should be made the foundation of national education, which should be the first and chief thing taught to the Poor, according to the excellent Liturgy and Catechism provided by our Church for that purpose.
Página 351 - While the demand for labour and the price of provisions, therefore, remain the same, a direct tax upon the wages of labour can have no other effect than to raise them somewhat higher than the tax.
Página 264 - But when things are matter of public concern, the discipline pertaining to them must also be matter of public concern ; and we must not consider any citizen as belonging to himself, but all as belonging to the state ; for each is a part of the state, and the superintendence of each part has naturally a reference to the superintendence of the whole.
Página 208 - ... and what we ought to do and what we ought not to do, whoever came into the world without having an innate idea of them?